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The book by the famous Ukrainian writer Vitaliy Petliovanyi, which was first published about sixty years ago, depicts the everyday life of the Kyiv Criminal Investigation Department in the middle of the last century. All of the events that form the basis of the stories took place in reality. Pechersk and Bessarabka, Podil, Kurenivka, Pushcha-Vodytsia...

The book can be interesting for a modern reader who lives here and now only because it gives the opportunity to compare and contrast the shocking realities of the present, willingly recorded by modern authors, with the criminal adventures of Kyiv in the recent past.