The works included in this collection belong to the pen of the famous master of the French detective Frederick Daru .. His audience is wide - he wrote more than 200 novels that read everything from shopkeeper to Professor Sorbonne. Frederick Dar was born in Lyon in 1919. And already in 1949, his first novel appeared - "Pay his bill", the main character of which was a charming, courageous, successful in business and love, the San Antonio Police Commissioner and his friends - Inspectors Alexander-Benois Berurier (Birth, aka Fat Man) and Pino (Pinyush or Caesar) .. Since then, from the pen of Frederick Dar, one after another appeared the most fascinating novels, which were printed under the pseudonym San Antonio. The writer created a whole series, which became, in fact, a new kind of detective genre, in which the parody of situations, brilliant humor and caustic sarcasm were the basis of criminal situations. In 1957, Frederick Dar was awarded the Grand Prize of detective literature, the circulation of his books reached hundreds of thousands of copies. Frederick Dar is a very diverse writer. In addition to the series about San Antonio (Sanantoniades, as he says himself), the writer created a number of detectives, in which the main thing is not the fact of the investigation of the crime, but the analysis of those hidden aspects of the human psyche that led to the crime. This collection introduces the reader to two detectives from the series “San Antonio” and psychological novels of the writer, first translated into Russian. We hope that the acquaintance with Frederick Dar will bring readers a lot of pleasant minutes.