For the first time in Russian - all novels, novels and collections of stories by P. Boileau and T. Narsezhak, French writers - co-authors, world-renowned masters of the detective genre. Abandoning the standard set of its attributes: crime - detective - police investigation, they, escalating the situation with the help of the reception of "anxious expectation" (suspense), lead the reader to an unpredictable and invariably tragic ending.