The new case of Makar Ilyushin and Sergei Babkin began with a lie. Private detectives specializing in searching for missing people undertake to find paintings that have disappeared from the museum. The world of artists is full of unsightly secrets, intrigues and undercurrents, it is easy to get lost in it, but it is difficult to find a way out.

How to figure out who is talented and who is mediocre? Whose works are expensive, and whose ones will not even pay for the paints spent? How are the theft of paintings and brutal murder related? About this - in the detective story by Elena Mikhalkova "Tiger, black, gold."

Can anyone offend an artist? Try it. If you are not afraid.