The novel “The Key of Yellow Metal” combines the irony and subtle mysticism characteristic of the author and so beloved by the reader with the extremely popular genre of the cryptological novel now. The main character of Max Fry's new novel, Philip, spends his time sitting on the empty dacha of a friend, burning newly written books in an attempt to find a new meaning for his own life. An unexpected call from his father calls him to Vilnius . In his old house, in the basement, an old key collector and his son find a strange door - a 15th-century antique object with an elaborate castle and a carved image of Hecate. What she hides and where she came from is a mystery that Philip is taken for. Searching for the key that opens the ancient castle and mystery, he plunges into the world of antiques and galleries, artists and dreamers. The spiral of the plot twists on the medieval streets of mystical Prague , Old Krakow , Vilnius , Modern Moscow and even in the territory of the hero's dreams , to get through which he is helped by the artist Mirra and the mysterious character Max in which long-time fans of the author’s work easily recognize their favorite hero