Ivan Pavlovich Podushkin, secretary of businesswoman Nora, is fatally unlucky! Again, the hostess decided to play the great detective! Niro Wolf rests . Their client made a bet with some money bag that he would find in an unfamiliar city a man he had never seen in his life. We only know that his name is Mikhail Stryzhenov .. The task, frankly, is not easy, especially when you consider that it is Vanya who should be carried out in search of Mikhail in the tiny Czech resort of Kowalsk . In addition to everything in Kovalsk goes and mom Vanya with his sworn girlfriend Koka . In general, as the poet said, a memorial service with dances . But Vanya was unexpectedly lucky .. He immediately came out on the trail of Stryzhenov .. However, he rejoiced early: everyone who knew Michael died like flies. But Vanya does not believe that this is a mere accident, and calculates the killer . The offender appoints a meeting of the Pillow. Vanya, like a rabbit to a boar, goes to her. Now the mortal threat hangs over the gentleman himself private investigation ...