“...How many detectives are divorced these days! You can’t take a step without getting into it. You turn on the TV - and there is crime, you open a book - an investigation, in the newspaper - incidents, in a magazine - from the courtroom... Past times are a different matter! There were few crimes, and no wonder. After all, at that time, honor meant more than wealth, an oath was kept at the cost of one’s own life, and a sneak strike was just as hard to imagine as iron birds dropping bombs on peaceful villages... And even if a murder did occur, rumors about it were passed on from mouths for a long time into our mouths and became a legend, a family legend - just like this story that our grandmother told us, and her great-grandmother, in turn, told her...”