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The events of the novel “The House of Dear”-the second from the trilogy of Leonid Yuzefovich about the legendary detective I.D. Putilin-dates back to the time when Ivan Dmitrievich was not yet the head of the detective police of St. Petersburg, but only the quarterly supervisor of the Spasskaya part. ... At the Arkady Hotel, which has a piquant reputation of the Dating House, a rich merchant was found dead. He spent the night with a woman, but no one saw his companion. Next to the body lies a gold tooth with a mysterious inscription: “The sign of the seven stars will open the gate,” and exactly the same after a few days, police agents will find in the port, next to a poisoned customs officer. It turns out that that night he was also in Arcadia. Finally, Putilin finds the next same token attached to the door of his own apartment. He has to understand the meaning of the inscription on him and to reveal this puzzle crime.
The book includes the conversation of Leonid Yuzefovich with critic Anatoly Vishevsky-about the detective genre, history as a material for the novel and the image of the protagonist, the investigator-investigator, who is in the piles of the most difficult The hypothesis always finds the simplest solution