About the book: 2021 / Cormoran Strike visits his family in Cornwall. There, a private detective, once again on the front pages after he caught the Shacklewell Ripper and solved the murder of Culture Secretary Jasper Chiswell, is approached by a strange woman and asked to find her mother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike had never had the opportunity to investigate a hanger, especially one that was forty years old; the chances of success are almost zero. But he is intrigued by the mysterious disappearance of the young doctor Margot Bamborough and takes on a case that turns out to be perhaps the most puzzling in his practice. With his faithful assistant Robin Ellacott, who has become a full-fledged partner in their agency, Strike searches for elusive eyewitnesses and interviews unreliable witnesses, looks for approaches to a maniac-murderer who has been behind bars for four decades, with disgust masters fortune telling with Tarot cards and astrological wisdom - and is gradually convinced that even cases so old can be deadly dangerous...For the first time in Russian!