Dama s chuzhimi sobachkami

V etom elitnom kottedzhnom poselke obosnovalis‘ uvazhaemye i sostoyatel‘nye lyudi. Edinstvennoe isklyuchenie — obitayushchaya v skromnom domike molodaya zhenshchina-kinolog, ona zarabatyvaet tem, chto beret na perederzhku chuzhih sobak. Za chto zhe ey vsadili nozh v serdce? Neuzheli tol‘ko za to, chto ona ne vpisyvaetsya v mestnyy bomond? Starye dobrye druz‘ya — moskovskiy sledovatel‘ Kudeyarov i mestnyy uchastkovyy Francev — ishchut ubiycu, lovko oruduyushchego stiletom. A tainstvennyy prestupnik tem vremenem nahodit novuyu zhertvu… Tat‘yana Ustinova rekomenduet: «Ostrovskaya igraet zhiznyami, tasuet geroev, zastavlyaet ih sovershat‘ neozhidannye i strannye postupki, a chitatelya — s zamiraniem serdca sledit‘ za nimi i gadat‘: srabotaet, ne srabotaet, vyberutsya, ne vyberutsya!.. Syuzhet to i delo povorachivaet v kakuyu-to druguyu storonu i na polnoy skorosti nesetsya dal‘she. Eto pochti nevozmozhno, no ey udaetsya uderzhat‘sya na etih virazhah!.. I ochen‘ hochetsya, chtoby u geroev vse poluchilos‘!.. I final! On vsegda feericheskiy, vo vsekh otnosheniyah».