A cold-blooded gentleman player, a beautiful circus performer, whose luxurious body the powers that be revel in, a satanic doctor-hypnotist... Their helpless victims are floundering in the networks of German espionage that have entangled the whole of St. Petersburg... In the new two-volume book from the “Polaris” series, the reader is returned to “ extremely criminal novels” by the forgotten writer, poet and journalist N. G. Shebuev (1874–1937) are both malicious parodies and quite exciting and fascinating “tabloid fiction”. The second volume of the publication includes the spy novel Bertha Behrs, which is being reprinted for the first time.