One after another, parcels with terrible contents arrive in respectable houses in St. Petersburg - parts of a dismembered corpse... One after another, the recipients end up in prison... Investigators are lost in suspicion. Fatal passions, adultery, threesome love, carousing with ladies of easy virtue and adventurous adventures serve as the backdrop of “The Devil.” In the new two-volume book from the “Polaris” series, the “extremely criminal novels” of the forgotten writer, poet and journalist N. G. Shebuev return to the reader (1874–1937) - both malicious parodies and quite exciting and fascinating “pulp fiction.”