Since ancient times, people have been killing each other. To achieve power and wealth, deal with enemies, avenge betrayal, remove a rival... One liked a gold chain on someone else's neck, another - someone else's wife. Someone wanted to seize someone else's throne, someone else wanted to seize someone else's factory or company. The motives and means are different, the solution and the result are the same: no person, no problem. And if the soul is unbearably burning with the desire to become famous, but the temple of Artemis has already been destroyed, and her other objects are under guard, you need to shoot the president or at least strangle two dozen careless girls... This book, containing a description of the most famous and most sophisticated murders in world history, can be called an encyclopedia of cruel human passions. And you also need to know this truth about a person.