The Girl with the Dolls

The February Valentine's Day was marked by a terrible incident: in a locked apartment, a dead girl named Victoria Rykova was discovered. Her death would hardly have attracted attention if not for the astonishing circumstances — Victoria was half-lying on... the bed, dressed in a flowing white dress and surrounded by six fancy dolls. Everything indicated that the unfortunate girl had taken her own life, and this was confirmed by Vika's diary, where she detailed the day, hour, and circumstances of her impending death. The investigation leaned towards the version of suicide, but Major Felix Verbin had a different opinion. He believed that the girl had no reason to voluntarily part with life; moreover, due to terrible visions, Vika avoided dolls, so where did those come from that sat around her on her deathbed? Who bought them? Why did someone need to kill the beautiful young girl? Who could the young student have offended? What really happened in her apartment on Valentine's Day? To answer all these questions, the senior operative major Verbin took it upon himself — a man with a special gift for asking the right questions to the right people…