Tradition is the desired "climate" of crime in the works of Snow, Francis, Le Carré. And the crime itself is carried out in the spirit of "best traditions," in a gentlemanly way: by someone else's hands, like Francis, in accordance with the rules of "good form," like Le Carré or Snow: "Oh, this is smart, extremely smart! Only a person with a delicate taste is capable of this - not a single beaten reception, nothing superfluous, everything is thought out and balanced, everything is in complete harmony!" Three novels by English authors are included in the present collection: "Death Under Sail" by Charles Percy Snow, "The Favourite" by Dick Francis, and "Murder Like a Gentleman" by John Le Carré.