Things past. Svechin N.

In the spring of 1884, dark, heavy ice came off the Neva late. The dank raw wind began to nail ugly, swollen corpses to the shores and shallows. This time they were just monstrously a lot. However, the Police of St. Petersburg quickly and without a shadow of doubt found the reasons: either drowning by negligence, then in alcohol, then in unconsciousness. The accidents that can be done here...

Vice-director of the police department Pavel Afanasevich incense does not agree with the official point of view. Together with Alexei Lykov, he achieves permission to re -open the body of a certain innkeeper Ostashkov, who allegedly fell into the river. The results of the analysis of water in the lungs of the dead are stunning incense...

The book consists of five short stories returning the reader during the time of young Lykov and still living incense.