Roman with cocaine. Ageev M.

Young decoper Vadim Maslennikov lives a vicious life: he steals, without any sympathy, infects an innocent girl with syphilis, can raise his hand to his mother. He is arrogant with people and loves to show off his ability to speak language. However, Vadim feels a deep emptiness within himself, which leads him to the use of cocaine and the final moral fall. The book also included the story “The Lousing People”. For the first time, these two works were published under the pseudonym M. Ageev in the 1930s in the emigrant periodicals of Paris, and V. Nabokov was considered the author. Only after a while it turned out that the creator of the works was another talented prose writer - the mysterious Mark Levy.