Detectives succeeded easily in the darling of fate for Arkady Vozdvizhensky - moderately complicated and gloomy, with an elegantly sad ending. But in the life of the writer - the king and god of the detective genre - nothing like this has ever happened. And here - on you, out of nowhere! Moreover, according to all the canons of pulp fiction: with threats and murder. Arkady’s faithful secretary Masha Veprentseva also fell into the heat of events, whose children were threatened with cruel reprisals in case of disobedience. All that was required of her and her boss was to refuse the “tour” trip to Kyiv. But why not go? After all, the visit program included a meeting between the writer and Ukrainian presidential candidate Boris Golovko. Masha and Vozdvizhensky, of course, disobeyed the villains. It just ended very sadly. They never had the chance to meet Boris Golovko at the dacha of a local poetess, where eminent guests gathered - he was brutally killed. Twenty-seven stab wounds! His tortured body was found... in the Machine Room...