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V starinnom osobnyake Savanny tumannym utrom 2 maya 1981 goda progremeli vystrely — ubit Denni Hensford, molodoy chelovek s somnitelnoy reputatsiey. Pod podozreniem okazyvaetsya hozyain doma… Tak nachinaetsya rassledovanie, dlivsheesya desyat let. Imenno stolko vremeni potrebovalos, chtoby uznat, chto zhe vse-taki togda proizoshlo — ubiystvo ili akt samozaschity. Odnako glavnoe v romane vovse ne detektivnaya sostavlyayuschaya, a sam gorodok Savanna s ego obitatelyami: svetskimi damami iz Kartochnogo kluba zamuzhnih zhenschin; zatvornikom, chya butyl s yadom sposobna ubit vseh zhiteley goroda; pozhilym chelovekom, vygulivayuschim kazhdyy den nesuschestvuyuschuyu sobaku; korolevoy krasoty ledi Shabli, vystupayuschey v vesma ekstravagantnom shou; zhritsey vudu, provodyaschey ritual nochyu na kladbische… Samoe interesnoe, chto eta istoriya i vse ee personazhi — ne vymysel. Dzhon Berendt, osnovyvayas na realnyh sobytiyah, sumel sozdat roman, zavoevavshiy serdtsa millionov chitateley.