The car of fear. Somnambula. Set. Chizh A.

A machine of fear. In the center of the retro -detective of Anton Chizh, the St. Petersburg detective Rodion Vanzarov is again. This time, he not only reveals crimes, but also maneuns between a beautiful lady - the wife of a very influential person - and a spiritual circle. And his friend, the brilliant forensic scientist Apollo Lebedev, is involved in the struggle of science and pseudoscience and, speaking under the banners of truth, opposes charlatans and fraudsters. The case that Vanzarov and Lebedev engage in is simple, but confusing, and only thanks to the “psychology” developed by the detective, it is possible to bring the criminal to clean water.

somnambul. October 1898. Petersburg was crazy: the lady was chewing a squirrel cap, Mr. Kukarika, jumping on the counter, the prison guard shot the prisoner. A special alarm causes the suicide of the official of the security department: he drowned in the city center. Vanzarov is entrusted with a secret investigation: not only to catch the killer, but also to find the disappeared Machina Terroris - a car of fear. The mysterious invention may control actions, turning people into limp somnambul. To reveal the secret, Vanzarov must look into the most black depths of hypnosis...