Philologist Marietta Chudakova known bulgakoved and former member of the Presidential Council, wrote a book for children and adults - a fascinating, funny and instructive detective. In the first part of a 14-year-old girl Zhenya must urgently solve the murder - or her friend Oleg will have long-term imprisonment. The trial took place, and the guy is already condemned. Zhenya rushes from Moscow to Siberia - the place of the crime occurred and the conclusion of Oleg. And meets a true friends to help carry out the investigation. Marietta Chudakova was born January 2, 1937 in Moscow. Russian literary critic, historian, Ph.D., writer, memoirist, social activist. Chudakova graduated from the Moscow school number 367, then in 1959 - the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. Started to be published in 1958. In the years 1959-1961 she taught Russian language and literature at the school. In 1964, after graduate school, she defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of philological sciences. From 1965-1984 she worked in the Manuscript Division of the State Library of the USSR. In 1980 he defended thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philology. Since 1985, began teaching at the Literary Institute, where she worked at the department of modern Russian literature. Since 1988, as a Visiting Professor taught at several American and European universities. Since 1991 - Member of the European Academy. Author of over 700 scientific papers and articles on the history of literature of the XX century, the history of philology and literary criticism. The main area of research interests Chudakova - history of Russian literature of the Soviet period (especially the work of Mikhail Bulgakov, E. Zamyatin, M.Zoshchenko, Kozyrev). Since the late 1980s, along with the historical and literary work, a lot of writing about sharp political and social issues of Russian reality.