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Moscow, May 1876. What would result in a student from the wealthy family to shoot himself before a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it's assumed. But small sleuth Erast Fandorin isn't satisfied with the final outcome this demise is definitely an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary detective work the precinct has done–and permanently reason: The bizarre and tragic suicide is soon attached to a definite case of murder, witnessed firsthand by Fandorin herself.