Valeri Titov

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.

A young circus performer decides to adopt a six-year-old orphan boy. His wife, who was initially not against it, resists the decision to adopt under pressure from her mother. It's going to be a divorce.

Fifteen years old Tirrei Davenant is a waiter at a roadside restaurant, where on the wall hangs a strange fantastic landscape. One day the millionaire's daughters accidentally visit a restaurant.

Detective Hall Jefferies, who suffered an injury, is forced to sit in a chair all day and look out the window out of boredom. After a while, Jeffries studied well all the neighbors in the house opposite, their behavior and habits. Changes in the life of a man living with his sick wife led him to think about murder. The woman disappeared, but no one saw her leave the house…

The alien ship in the rays of the evening sun seemed like a cloud, devoid of clear shapes, iridescent and completely safe. At that moment, Marya Stepanovna, her daughter Leocadia and granddaughter Sashenka, who was sick with a sore throat and was capricious, were in the house. Semensky, Leocadia's husband, has not yet returned from work. A cloud hung over the house for several minutes, suddenly fell on it, enveloped the house like fog, then rose again, picking up speed until it mixed with other clouds and clouds. The house has disappeared...

1942. Young men, graduates of a reconnaissance school, develop and carry out extremely complex operations behind enemy lines.