Formula alhimika

Rassleduya smert studenta, syschik Ardov vyhodit na opalnogo uchenogo-alhimika Gorskogo, kotoryy sumel postich taynu transmutatsii zolota. Odnako Gorskiy umiraet pri zagadochnyh obstoyatelstvah, a tainstvennaya formula okazyvaetsya v rukah zloumyshlennikov, kotorye nachinayut shantazhirovat pravitelstvo. Oni obeschayut s legkostyu obvalit natsionalnuyu valyutu. Kazhetsya, chto krah rossiyskoy ekonomiki neminuem. Ober-politsmeyster poruchaet Ardovu vyyasnit, deystvitelno li propavshaya formula pozvolyaet proizvodit deshevoe zoloto. Ot otveta na etot vopros zavisit sudba imperii…