The nostalgic detective story dives headlong into an era when the police were not afraid, “the investigation was conducted by experts,” and criminals did not go unpunished. The author lovingly reproduces the signs of the times, literally reviving the appearance of the capital's streets and filling the novel with the smallest details of everyday life. 1975. Several sinister murders take place between the Moscow districts of Sokol and Airport: the victims turn out to be unrelated elderly women. Captain Pokrovsky from Petrovka, 38 takes up the case. A tangle of secrets becomes entangled, black marketeers from Begovaya and business workers of the CSKA sports complex come into the investigation's sphere of attention, the trace of a very ancient icon suddenly emerges, and a body without documents is discovered in one of the capital's morgues... A detective story written with sparkling irony, read in one breath. Pure delight for everyone who would like to remember the times of their childhood and youth or visit where Vyacheslav Kuritsyn’s “time machine” got to.