Eduard Anatolyevich Khrutsky is a prose writer and film playwright who has published more than 40 books in Russia and abroad. Popular films were based on his scripts - “Night over the City”, “According to the Criminal Investigation Department”, “Proceed with Liquidation”, “Last Autumn”, “Date House”, “On the Corner, at the Patriarch’s”... In the novel by Eduard Khrutsky “Policeman” describes the criminal stories of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century - extortion, robberies, murders. Detective police official Alexander Bakhtin is waging an irreconcilable fight against the “heroes” of the criminal world. The power of his intellect and high operational skill cannot be resisted by the most dishonest and most sophisticated criminals.