The Genius of Metropolitan Investigation

In late autumn of 1903, a petty bourgeois named Kolobov approached one of the police stations in Moscow and demanded to be arrested for the murder of an old general's wife and her maid, which he claimed to have committed... in Ryazan. He was so convincing that the police immediately complied with his request. The next morning, Kolobov was found dead in his cell... The investigation into the deceased's involvement in the double murder has been assigned to the investigative judge for particularly important cases, Ivan Fyodorovich Volovtsov. He travels to Ryazan and resumes the investigation. However, none of the witnesses recognize Kolobov in the photograph. There is already a suspect in the case, and a trial will soon take place. Nevertheless, Volovtsov is wary of such haste. He understands that the charges have been hastily filed, many facts contradict each other, and the motive remains unclear... Ivan Fyodorovich decides to re-examine the details of the crime and soon, unexpectedly for everyone, reaches a shocking conclusion…