The fate of Arkady Vozdvizhensky, the detectives managed easily - moderately confused and gloomy, with an elegantly sad end. But in the life of the writer the king and god of the detective genre nothing like this has ever happened. And here on you, from anywhere! And even according to all the canons of criminal reading: with threats and murder. In the hell of events fell and faithful secretary Arkady Masha Veprenzeva, whose children in case of disobedience was threatened with cruel punishment. And it was required from her and her boss only to abandon the “gastro” trip to Kiev. But how not to go? After all, the program of the visit included a meeting of the writer with the presidential candidate of Ukraine Boris Golovko . Masha and the Vozdvizhensky villains, of course, disobeyed .. It's just ended up being very sad. To get acquainted with Boris Golovko at the dacha of the local poetess, where famous guests gathered, they never happened - he was brutally killed . Twenty-seven stab wounds! His tortured body was found... in the Machine Room...