Gogol Boulevard, a prestigious district in Moscow, was once called «Chertolye», meaning «a playground for devils». Old legends take on new meaning when the body of an artist, stabbed to death with a knife, is discovered on the boulevard. Most strangely, the fingerprints on the weapon belong to someone who definitely could not have done it... Svetlana Somova, who has already helped solve murders with cultural studies overtones, intervenes in the police investigation. This time, one mystery follows another, all revolving around the magic textbook «Necronomicon», which, of course, does not exist in reality... So why does Sveta discover its connection to a very real crime?
