In a suburban forest park, schoolchildren came across the corpse of a man. For some reason, the dead man was wearing a cape with a cross. There was a bloody wound in the chest, and a suede glove lay next to it. What is this? Twenty-first century duel? And who came up with the idea of playing musketeers?.. Private detective Tatyana Ivanova, who began the investigation, believes that there can be no talk of any duel. After all, the man was not stabbed with a sword. And they pierced me with ordinary iron fittings. An original murder weapon and an equally original staging... All that remains is to find the killer. Who is he - a romantic nature, an admirer of Alexandre Dumas, or a person far from romance, for whom death and life are all the same...