House of dates. Yuzefovich L.

The events of the novel “The House of Date”-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 overseer of the Spassky part.

... in the hotel "Arkady", which has a piquant reputation of the House of Deters, 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 it and reveal this puzzling crime.

The book included the conversation between Leonid Yuzefovich with critic Anatoly Vishevsky-about the detective genre, the story as a material for the novel and the image of the protagonist, the investigator detective who is a detective, who is In the piles of the most difficult hypotheses, it always finds the simplest solution.