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Case No. 003
At a premiere in the Lykhtar chamber theatre, a counterweight breaks loose from the fly gallery and crashes down a step away from the lead actress. The police write: an old rope wore through. But a week before the premiere the actress found a note on her dressing-room mirror: “Don't go on at the premiere.”
The investigating pair
Investigative journalist · 31
Spent seven years at an investigative newsroom. After two of the bureau's cases she is known both in the archives and in the cafés on Drukarska Street. Reads a budget as closely as she reads people.
Former police detective, private investigator · 38
Twelve years in Lviv's criminal investigation unit. As a young man he worked as a stagehand at the opera, so he knows how a fly gallery works. Does not trust words — trusts timestamps and knots.
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