A clay fragment of an ancient terracotta fresco, which fell into the hands of the Chinese entrepreneur Chen, attracts the attention of a variety of people: r...

An ancient medallion that falls into the hands of an oligarch-adventurer and a young researcher of ancient rarities radically changes their destinies. The ol...

Magda had an accident, which she does not remember at all due to amnesia, and experienced clinical death. After this, Magda’s tastes change, and out of nowhe...

In the mid-1920s, actress Lotta Lenya (real name Caroline Wilhelmina Charlotte Blamauer) meets her future husband, composer Kurt Weill, under whose guidance ...

The familiar metro: the already unnoticeable sound of the turnstiles, thousands of people and their voices, which by chance can become the reason for the dis...

Exiting to a parallel world - the Spatial Zone - with the help of a Projector that opens Portals has become a common thing. Any reality will be simulated for...

In the diary, entries in which appeared from May 1936 until the author's arrest in October 1944, Friedrich Reck-Mallechewen describes with unparalleled poign...

Journalist Matvey could not refuse a friend’s request to write an advertising article about a new recreation center in the mountains of Serbia with the poeti...

A story from the collection “Christmas with a Detective.”

A story from the collection “Winter with a Detective.”

Anna is raising her son alone. Sonya devoted herself to caring for her sick mother. Margarita is smart and talented, but so ugly that she received the nickna...

1941 Amsterdam is occupied by the Nazis. Professor Joseph Held understands that now his hometown is in the grip of a destructive force that destroys everythi...