About the book: 2015 / Eduard Khrutsky is well known as the author of detective and adventure works. The book “Shadows in the Lane” contains amazing stories from the life of Moscow in the second half of the 20th century: the loudest and most sensational criminal cases in the capital and beyond. You will learn how Vasily Stalin played billiards at the Moscow Hotel, what kind of mistress the KGB set up for the French ambassador, what underground gambling houses were in Moscow and what Comrade Stalin did on the Western Front.