"I could not stop, when read "Eight detectives". In the end it was desirable to applaud"! it is Алекс Норт, author of the best seller "Whisper after a window""When did you for the last time read a really original thriller? Expectation finishes" - А. Дж. Финн, author of the best seller "Woman in a window""Incredibly wisely. Agate of Christie uncaps - bully" for you! it is Sara Пинборо, author of book "In her eyes"Alex Павези created a detective reminding gold novels of Christie, but with an unique living structure. It is a book-rebus, that offers to the reader to read a riddle before a main heroine. Multilevel detective with the tangled history and stratification of with a plot turns. "Eighth detective" - it simultaneously and to the оммаж classics of genre, and her complete переосмысление.All histories about murders submit to the rules - at least, there is a victim, detective and suspected.Thirty years back professor of mathematics Underback Макаллистер in these rules understood and wrote seven wonderful detective histories. But it was too a long ago, in fact now Underback lives by a hermit on the Mediterranean small island, counting up the remain of the days.Suddenly, as a devil from a tobacco-box, Julia Харт, ambitious editor, longing to reprint the same detective histories, appears in life of Underback. Now writer that hides from the past, and editor aspiring to understand him, must work hand in hand. Only are there full disparities in histories of Underback - or, maybe, prompts that will result in a new, eighth secret?