Checkmate

The author of the works included in this book, Boris Olidort, who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Maxim, was not only a poet and journalist, but also a bright representative of the “literature of the communist Pinkerton”, as Nikolai Bukharin called it. Critics of the twenties of the last century noted: “The form of an adventurous novel, an adventure novel, fascinating, exciting the reader and at the same time ideologically correct - is now more timely possible.” All this is on the pages of Maxim Maxim"s books: dizzying adventures, murders and their investigations, insidious conspirators trying to crush all of humanity under themselves, and courageous people who prevent them from doing this