Dead Alive

In the center of Moscow, in the wall of one of the offices, a woman's body wrapped in plastic was discovered. At first glance, the crime appears to be less than a day old. However, the socialite Elena Samoyta, whose body was extracted from the wall, was actually killed several years ago. The case was long closed, and the guilty party—Elena's husband—is serving time in prison. How could this be? To the detectives' surprise, it turned out that Elena had not died at that time; she had been working in Moscow under everyone's nose and had recently opened a chain of travel companies. Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lev Gurov realizes that there is some criminal substitution behind all this. He decides to re-examine the materials of the old case and soon finds the main witness to this mysterious story…

Nikolai Leonov, a former investigator of the MUR, knew firsthand how the most convoluted criminal cases are solved. Therefore, each of his books is a true, gripping story with an unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending. The main character of these books is Colonel Lev Gurov, a high-class detective with many positive human qualities. His friends respect him, his enemies fear him, and women love him. He is a true domestic superman. For forty years, novels about Lev Gurov have consistently attracted fans of domestic detective fiction. The now-classic series "Black Cat" has more than 200 books published, with print runs in the tens of millions of copies.