Treasures from Scythian graves gained a new life changing hands and traveling from one country to another. But their way was marked by blood…

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   Proserpine – goddess of the underground kingdom – possessed the casket where the secret of love and death was kept. The persons who looked inside were in danger of falling into the deadly sleep.

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The sandglass of Ekaterina Medici’s personal astrologer may foretell the future and warn of the danger. But it chooses the owner itself…

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The pagan relic of wizards, the golden idol of Ognebog (God of Fire) is awaiting sacrifice even now. And sacrifice will be offered...

The participants of New Year mystery play do not know yet that some of them are destined not to survive that night...

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A silver amulet from Kitezh city protects its owner from any misfortune. But if a person does evil things to obtain this amulet, its force will bring harm to the owner... This is a legend on which the book is based.

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An ancient Carthaginian coin with the figure of two-faced Janus takes people's lives to make its owner's desires come true.

Weapons of ancient heroes do not exist only in myths and legends, they may be as real as the world around us...

An owner of a private dog-breeders club... and Privy Councillor of politicians and businessmen Denis Matveev has been killed in a cottage located near Moscow. Prescient man, he used to solve the most difficult crimes without any problems, but he was unable to divine his own death...

White lilies... A certain person called Sphinx, handles killing puzzles to a probable victim in a basket with white lily flowers. Vlas Nikonov, a famous violinist doesn`t give a rush to a silly letter and forfeit his life.

Astra believes that she is destined to shine out, her name in terms of Greek means "Star". What was her surprise to find out a thunderclap just before the wedding day - the fiancé cheat on her with the best girl friend Marina!

A modest girl with unusual name Dream takes care after her neighbor absolutely selflessly and couldn`t even imagine that she will be charged with murder of the old lady! Is it possible that chess she got as inheritance are just the point?

Anisim Chernow, the owner of the Firm Gallery, asks detective Vseslav Smirnov for help. Exhibition of unknown artist Savva Rogozhin is put under his care, but the best painting of exposition called "The Nymph" has disappeared just on the eve of opening. The artist will be found dead soon...

Angelica Ermolaeva, who spent childhood in Taiga far way from civilized world, refers to the detective Vseslav Smirnov for help. She finds herself in Moscow... because of the Chinese dragon!

Detective Vseslav Smirnov faces a strange thing.

The bank manager, Stas Kiselev and two girl-friends of him visit a closed club, where worship rituals of Moloch, bloodthirsty Phoenicians god, are held.

Eduard asks his old friend Vseslav Smirnov for help in the search of his wife Nana. Soon, Eduard`s cosine Oleg dies. He was a digger and took up the position that mysterious labyrinth was situated just right under the Moscow-city.      

Something strange was going on with Eva after she visited the “Neoglobe” theatre that restored Shakespeare`s traditions.  She got acquaintance with a young actor there, who presented himself as Christopher Marlo – a poet predecessor of Shakespeare.

Businessman Rudnev applies detective Vseslav Smirnov for help in trifling matter at the first sight – somebody terrifies his mother over the phone. The dame dies soon…

Beauty Maria Simanskaya has a plenty of admires, but no one can get her affection. Perhaps the main reason is in the ancient family secret that Maria’s father has discovered. If Masha reveals the secret to somebody, fatality will happen…

“Eksmo” publishing house presents the new “ARTIFACT-DETECTIVE” series.

This series contains distingue intrigue, delightful historical entourage and exclusive plots. It is absolutely for gourmet in the sphere of literature.  

Artifact, objet d'art, unalterably becomes the principal character of a novel. Created in past centuries it gives rise to agiotage then to crime. Punishment is postponed, but it’s time is coming now. 

 Cassandra is the most beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam. People didn’t believe any of his oracles. The novel’s events take place in our times. This is a story of magic coincidences, worships, criminal dramas and passionate love penetrated with the eternal longing of a person to spiritual heights and cognition of things` sense.  What are we doing in this world? What does the world make with us? What lies behind the curtain called “death”? What causes the people to make some deeds generating love and hatred? These are eternal questions…

   Maybe the reader will find the answers on his questions in the novels? Or simply will think over the thoughts: who is he? Where he came from? Where he goes?
   Open the door to the unknown, smell the wind of wandering in the labyrinths of your own spirit. It is a happy travel, my friends. When it is finished you will never be the previous.

The specialist in crime detection Artem Ponomarev inquires into series of murders that terrified Saint Petersburg. The victims of the maniac are young beautiful women, and the murder leaves elegant epitaphs by dead bodies.

If you have already read the first part of the mystical detective by Natalia Solntseva it means, that you have lost your way in Cassandra's gardens. This book will you help to get out therefrom.

The businessman Andrew Yakimovich has perished under strange circumstances. What is it? Is it a murder or an accident?

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Four-volume edition Game with Colours of Death has been recounting about bachelor's-buttons and camomiles by no means. It is a blend of the phantasmagoria magic and homeliness, that's indicated by golden, red and black colours.

For those who thinks that a modest librarian and a security staff are not connected with Ancient Egypt; Moscow jeweller and teacher of foreign languages are not connected with Hindu ruby «Incarnadine drop», they are to be reassured. It happened so that a young art dealer and a journal publisher was a connoisseur of a number of Florentine poisons and alchemy and a modest pensioner from Kolomna was a «Black Rose» knight.

Moreover, all this happens right now, besides us. In addition, nothing is fiction.

The series of terrible crimes, connected with the mysterious statuette of Buddha, have been stretched from the depth of centuries up to the present.

Strange murders occur in the city. The successful jeweler Kovalevskiy was killed; somebody attempts to kill his girlfriend Valeria; the young jeweler-hunter has disappeared without leaving a trace…

The young successful businessman and art-dealer Sergey Gorskiy arrives at the art gallery, where the exhibition of his friend Authur Kornilin - the world known painter - is taken place. Visitors are amazed by the beauty of mysterious subjects and by an unordinary talent of the painter.

Sergey Gorskiy the hero of the novel becomes an owner of the marvelous old Florentine medallion. The history of the mysterious medallion has been begun many centuries before described events.