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About the product 1925. The provincial town is agitated: from the grave at the local cemetery, the corpse of the capital’s writer disappeared, either buried alive, or turned into a ghoul. Forensic doctor Professor Grenich, who happened to be passing through the city, is not inclined to mysticism, but loses faith in the strength of his own reason, observing the visible signs of the presence of a living dead in the town. Or is it all a talented hoax, started by a completely living criminal? But what is his goal? The «Retro Detective» series is Julia Lee’s action-packed novels about Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s for readers who want not only to enjoy a fascinating intrigue, but also to learn something new about famous historical events, to better understand the life and life of their older relatives. … Annotation 1925. A half-abandoned city. Professor of psychiatry and forensic physician from Moscow, Konstantin Fedorovich Grenikh, after the revolutionary events and the civil war, goes to pick up his lost daughter from the orphanage, but the stagecoach breaks down on the way. The father, secretly yearning for the old regime, and the wayward ten-year-old girl, passionately dreaming of joining the ranks of the pioneers, find themselves drawn into a series of mysterious incidents … The son-in-law of the chairman of the local executive committee, the writer Koshelev, arrived from Moscow hoping to return his father’s factory. An eccentric decadent and badass, he quarreled with the secretary of a local newspaper: everyone tries to please the new government, but one shines in the capital’s literary circles, and the other vegetates in the provinces. Koshelev confesses to Grenich that he is sick with narcolepsy, and in the morning the writer is found dead …
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