Dedicated to Yalta by Joseph Brodsky. Short summary

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The other day there was a murder in Yalta. The investigator has several people on his pencil, who are to be interrogated, and then it is necessary to figure out which of the defendants is lying and to find the culprit.

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A body was found in Yalta. Law enforcement officers quickly arrived on the call. Among the task force was one investigator, who quickly took up the investigation of the crime.

As a result of the investigation, the operative found four defendants. The first person the investigator questioned was a witness. He also gave a description of the appearance of the suspects.

According to the witness, the murdered man called him in the afternoon and told him that he would not be able to come to visit him. As the witness himself states, he did not notice any excitement, and he attributed some of the strangeness to the concussion.

They later arranged to meet on Wednesday. Also during the dialogue the investigator was able to find out that the victim was acquainted with a woman whose name the investigator gave.

The witness said that the victim had broken up with the woman five years earlier. After that fateful dialogue, the woman herself called the number and told him everything.

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