The plots of the works included in this collection will delight detective fans with their diversity and complete dissimilarity from each other. The novel “Lemons Never Lie” by R. Stark will open before the reader a cruel world in which people who are outside the law live - raiders, murderers and thieves; “The Woman in the Lake” by R. Chandler prepares a meeting with the famous private detective Philip Marlowe, who is looking for the missing wife of a certain businessman; and the novel “Once upon a time there was an old woman...” E. Quinn will amaze with the unusualness and unpredictability of the events taking place in a rich, but half-insane family.