Editor Susan Ryland reads the manuscript of the detective novel that fans of the popular series are eagerly awaiting, and discovers that it is missing the most interesting thing - the denouement. Susan begins searching for the missing pages and fantasizes along the way, trying to guess who the killer is in the novel, compiling a list of suspects... The news of the death of Alan Conway, the author of that same detective story, takes her by surprise. Did he commit suicide? Been the victim of an accident? But it’s not for nothing that Susan spent twenty years editing books in the crime genre; she knows the deductive method firsthand. Having compared some facts, she comes to the conclusion that a disguised murder took place, and at the risk of her life begins to unravel this detective tangle...

A novel within a novel, a literary game full of mysteries and hoaxes.

For the first time in Russian!