A young woman, a reporter for a popular newspaper, was killed. Both her lovers are under suspicion: a journalist of the same publication, who stole other people's articles, and the head of the newspaper, who exposed this fraud.

One after another, two girls become victims of a maniac who tried to perform a lobotomy operation on them.

Antiques expert Rita Titova was found strangled in the park. Investigators establish that on the eve of her death, Rita met with the customer for the examination of silver spoons.