SINISTER TROPHY

1945  year. After demobilization, the former commander of the reconnaissance company, Major Alexander Vasilkov, returns to Moscow. Here he meets his deputy captain Startsev. Discharged after being wounded, he has been working as a senior investigator at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department for two years. Startsev calls the commander to serve in the Criminal Investigation Department. There are not enough people, and the criminal situation in the capital is akin to the frontline. The other day, for example, under a reparation program from Germany, the "Priam's Treasure" arrives in the USSR  - nine thousand items found by Heinrich Schliemann during the excavations of Troy. The criminals will probably try to profit ...

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2021