The curse of the Mountain of Death. Babitsky S.

In the summer of 1880, a group of scientists went on an expedition to the Caucasus to find the skull of a mythical golden ram, which the Argonauts once had been hunting for a long time. Local highlanders warned that the skull was stored in a cave on the mountain of death, but anyone who enters there is waiting for inevitable permissible permission. Scientists only laughed at the superstitious fear of the elders. Having passed through incredible trials, they still got to the cave and - Oh, a miracle! - In fact, they found a skull with golden horns there.

and then something inexplicable began to occur. One by one, members of the expedition began to die. The first victim is a geologist. He simply did not wake up, and they found a wound on his neck - thin and straight, as if a sharp claw of bat struck a throat. Then the botanist went to the mountains for herbs for herbarium and did not return - he was covered with an avalanche. The well -being of the zoologist, who stemmed by Tiflis, who died out by the evening... Miraculously surviving the researcher Makar, returning to Moscow, immediately turned to the private detective Marmeladov for help...

a complete immersion in the atmosphere of the old Moscow century - with its elaborate manners, merchant removal and animal cruelty...