For fifteen seconds he did not look away... Silver and glass were placed on a large, three meters long, dining table. There is food on plates and the tablecloth is red. It might have seemed that the tablecloth was made of scarlet silk, if that part of it that was closer to the window, where the red spill had not reached, had not remained white. In the middle, where the red was thickest, lay face down a woman whom death had found at or near the table. Opposite, leaning back in a chair, the second dead woman froze - her head was thrown back, and her long dark hair was scattered behind her back. Her dress was the same red as the tablecloth, as if she had specifically chosen the color to match it. Meanwhile, there were no more dead or living in the room. Only two bodies and scarlet silk between them... The famous Inspector Wexford returns to the Russian reader in Ruth Rendell's novel "The Gunner's Daughter's Kiss." For the first time in Russian.