A shot in the back. Doomed to win. Leonov N.I.

The name of Nikolai Leonov is well known to fans of the detective genre. In the 1950-1960s, the future writer worked on the Moscow criminal investigation department, and having left the authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the rank of captain, he took up literary work. He is the author of many novels and novels recognized by the classics of the domestic detective and who have become a “school” for the next generation of writers. Leonov equally perfectly succeeded in historical detectives (for example, the famous “Tales on Pyatnitskaya” and “Viking Operation”), and detectives from everyday life. A large success of the writer brought a cycle of popular detective novels about the inspector Lev Gurov.

“The appearance with a guilty” is the first work of the cycle and the first business of Gurov, where the image of an investigator arises, who knows how to ourselves is non -trivial and carefully studying the psychology of the criminal. In this, as in the next stories (“shot in the back”, “trap” and “doomed to victory”), included in the real publication, the Gurov investigator faces a difficult task - to calculate the criminal in a limited number of suspects and the absence of direct evidence.

In each of his work, Leonov Mastercock builds the plot and retains the intrigue to the end. The story of the detective of Gurov is well known for film adaptations, and Nikolai Leonov himself wrote scripts for films; In the early 2000s, based on this cycle, A. Bashirov shot the series “Good luck to you, detective.”