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It's the fall of 1950. In a room in a Moscow communal apartment, former prisoner Matvey Zubkov dies of a sleeping pill overdose. Behind the thin partitions, his seven neighbors hear groans, wheezing, and the grinding of nails as he dies. But no one comes to their aid.
In the morning, the police will tell them he died quietly, in his sleep. Of natural causes. And all seven will confirm this lie.
Pretending to be a simple, alcoholic storekeeper, investigator Arkady Nikitin and his family move in to replace the deceased. Everyone believes he's a nobody. A nobody. The perfect neighbor for someone with something to hide.
The investigator soon realizes that behind every door lies a different truth. Each of the residents has seen something, knows something. But everyone remains silent. Because in this communal apartment, they fear not the murderer—they fear their neighbor. Nikitin, disguised as a storekeeper, can't interrogate, demand, or threaten. He can only peer into the deceitful eyes and wait for one of his neighbors to make a mistake. But his wife, Varya, and daughter, Masha, can't wait, because they've become bait in a cage of wolves.
And the main question here is no longer "Who killed the old man?" but... how can one killer be found if everyone is guilty?
In the morning, the police will tell them he died quietly, in his sleep. Of natural causes. And all seven will confirm this lie.
Pretending to be a simple, alcoholic storekeeper, investigator Arkady Nikitin and his family move in to replace the deceased. Everyone believes he's a nobody. A nobody. The perfect neighbor for someone with something to hide.
The investigator soon realizes that behind every door lies a different truth. Each of the residents has seen something, knows something. But everyone remains silent. Because in this communal apartment, they fear not the murderer—they fear their neighbor. Nikitin, disguised as a storekeeper, can't interrogate, demand, or threaten. He can only peer into the deceitful eyes and wait for one of his neighbors to make a mistake. But his wife, Varya, and daughter, Masha, can't wait, because they've become bait in a cage of wolves.
And the main question here is no longer "Who killed the old man?" but... how can one killer be found if everyone is guilty?
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- All books in the series Detective stories about post-war criminal investigation