About the book: 2020 / In the summer of 1909 in St. Petersburg, the corpse of a woman was fished out from the Neva, stabbed to death with particular cruelty. It soon becomes clear that this is just the beginning, that the capital of the Russian Empire has its own Jack the Ripper. Panic gripped St. Petersburg. The capital police began searching for the killer. The head of the detective police, Filippov, takes up the case. The task is not easy, the police have never dealt with serial killers before, informants and raids on dens alone will not do, here you need to understand the personality of the maniac, figure out what prompted him to open a bloody account, and, based on this, calculate what his next one will be step. The history of the search for the first official Russian serial killer Nikolai Radkevich - in the fascinating historical detective story “Death to the Beauties”, or the St. Petersburg Avenger».