Nina Matveevna Sorotokina is one of the few truly popular authors of the historical genre in modern Russia. She wrote the famous “Midshipmen” (the novels “Three from the Navigation School”, “Date in St. Petersburg”, “Chancellor”, “The Law of Pairs”), based on which Svetlana Druzhinina first shot a four-part television film, and then two full-length films. Other historical novels: in the dilogy “The Empress’s Favorite” and “The Beautiful Envoy”, as well as in the novel “The Courier from Hamburg” the action takes place in the writer’s favorite 18th century; in the novel “The Crown of Omnipotence, or the Wife of Ivan the Great” - during the time of Ivan III; in the novel “Under a Common Umbrella” - in the twentieth century. In addition to fiction, Nina Matveevna Sorotokina also has popular science books: “History of Russia. A woman’s view”, “Favorites of Catherine the Great”, “Empress Elizaveta Petrovna”. In the collection “Russian Princesses,” Nina Matveevna wrote about women of the 18th century, daughters and nieces of Peter the Great. Recently, the Veche publishing house published the book “Benvenuto Cellini” - there is very little material in Russian about this outstanding sculptor and jeweler, but now there is an extensive study, moreover, written easily and excitingly, like all Sorotokina’s books! — and a book about Alexander I is being prepared for publication. But the recognized author of the historical genre has books written in completely different genres. We offer library readers a detective story by Nina Sorotokina, which is simply called: “Summer Detective.” Because the action in it takes place in the hot summer in the small settlement of Tyoply Stan, located on the high bank of the clean and deep Ugra River. A dead man was discovered in the nettles near the old cathedral. The unknown man was lying on his side, with a long abrasion on his forehead, and his chest was perforated by a rusty pin protruding from a structure thrown to the ground. The design was a corner of the cornice, which previously held a massive drum with an onion...