It is one thing to play a tragedy on stage in front of an audience, and quite another to be a participant in it in life. All of Melpomene's servants, from the actors to the stage workers, were in shock. After all, it is quite obvious that two actors at the same time could not die just like that, which means that someone helped them leave this world. The main character and heroine of the play “Cunning and Love” lay motionless on the stage. The makeup made them look like mannequins, not people, carelessly tossed around like dolls. The operatives were already fussing around the bodies. Something terrible happened here on stage. But what? It seems that someone present chose the right moment and killed the artists right during the performance. The mysterious death forced every unwitting participant in the tragedy to look around them: who is the killer? Previously, the book was published under the title “Cunning without love”