For the first time in Russian - an outstanding historical detective, winner of the Edgar Award for best debut in 2000. Benjamin Weaver - a former famous boxer, and now a private detective - is looking for missing things and collecting debts for his aristocratic clients in the imperial capital - London. Another customer instructs him to investigate the murder of his own father, a stockbroker with whom Weaver had not communicated for ten years. A chain of evidence forces him to rush between gambling houses and coffee shops, aristocratic living rooms and brothels, getting on the trail of a large-scale conspiracy that could shake the foundations of the empire itself, and the conspirators hidden in the shadows are not inclined to stand on ceremony with unnecessary witnesses...