The Root of Evil Among the Herbs

In the distant year of 1951, Professor of Botany Kantemirov was accused of the brutal murder of three women during an expedition to Dombei-Ulgen. With the help of his involved graduate student Ninochka, the professor managed to escape to Moscow,... where all suspicions against him were lifted... It seemed that so many years had passed, that old story had long been overgrown with weeds... But no! In the Moscow region, the bodies of strangled women were discovered within a few days of each other. Colonel Gushchin and his investigating allies, Klavdi Mamontov and Makar Psaltyrnikov, have no doubt that they are dealing with the actions of a serial killer. The pattern of the murders matches, as do the unusual details that the strangler leaves on the victims' bodies. And all of them point back to that old case. The heirs of Professor Kantemirov did not inherit his obsession with botany, but it seems they have an obsession of a different kind in their blood...