The eighth detective. Pavezi A.

All stories about the murders are subordinate to the rules - at least there is a victim, a detective and a suspect.

Thirty years ago, a professor of mathematics Grant Macalliste figured out these rules and wrote seven beautiful detective stories. But this was too long ago, because now Grant lives a hermit on the Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days.

Suddenly, like a handle from a snuffbox, a Julia Hart, an ambitious editor, passionately wants to reprint the very detective in the life of a grant. stories. Now the writer, who is hiding from his past, and the editor, striving to understand, must work hand in hand. But only in the stories of Grant is full of inconsistencies - or, perhaps, tips that will lead to a new, eighth secret?