Nikolay Leonov
01, 03 Shot in the back (compilation)
01 Surrender
02, 04, 03 Favorites. Volume 1 (compilation)
02, 04, 06 Trap. Destined to win. It's not evening yet (compilation)
02, 04 Destined to win (compilation)
02 Trap
03 Shot in the back
04 Destined to win
05-07 Professionals (compilation)
05 Professionals
06-08 Favorites. Volume 2 (compilation)
06 It's not evening yet
07 There are no free cakes!
08-09 Cop filthy (compilation)
08-10 Filthy cop (compilation)
08 Corruption
09-10 Favorites. Volume 3 (compilation)
09 cop filthy
10-11 Hitman (compilation)
10 Good luck, detective!
11-13 Confessions of a detective (compilation)
11 Hitman
12-13 Drug mafia (compilation)
12 Scarlet Blood
13 Drug Mafia
14 We are of the same blood
15, 20 Devil in Paradise (compilation)
15 Vengeance is just
16 Pay for Life
16, 14 Pay for life. You and I are of the same blood (compilation)
17 Cobra Throw
18 Jackals
19, 23 Mayhem (compilation)
19 Gurov's Defense
20 Devil in Paradise
21-22 Vultures (compilation)
21 Money or law
22 Vultures
23 Mayhem
24 Death Live
25 Trump Jacks
26 Handwriting of the executioner
27 Wolf ticket
28 A feast during the plague
Alexey Makeev
Alibi is not enough for everyone
Alibi from the other world
scam
swindlers
Velvet Murder
Velvet murder. Sky Guardian (compilation)
Run if you can
God of the Fire Lagoon (Pair of lives in reserve)
diamond bullet
You are assigned to die
In a pack of wolves
Widow for a Day
Virtuoso Robbery (Fictionist)
Wolf Pack
Eighth horizontal
Tower for a businessman
Grandmaster of Investigation
Walked death in a wedding veil (compilation)
Two bullets to the colonel
Deputy order (Captain of a pirate brig)
Ten Bullets on a Dead Man's Chest (Compilation)
Gentleman of Fortune
Gurov's dictatorship. Seller of the Motherland (compilation)
Dilemma
Diplomatic corpse (compilation)
The good face of evil
Debt by payment is terrible
Dollar equivalent
cruel justice
Backstairs
Frozen passion (compilation)
Beyond Violence (Compilation)
Ultimate pleasure
The Omen
The Perfect Scam
The Perfect Maniac
Perfect Maniac (Compilation)
Emerald Witness
spanish trap
Drop of royal blood
Catalog of killer services
witch love
The king beats the lady
Extreme measures
red card
Kremlin bullet (compilation)
Kremlin ace
Criminal mysticism
Ice Witness (compilation)
The cure for life
Justice League
Detective's file
Suite with Cemetery View
seasoned cop
bear corner
Little things detective
Cop roof
Cop hook
Dead Family (compilation)
The meeting place is appointed by the bullet
Moscow inquisitor
Man's business
muddy business
We are from the Russian police
Racing with a killer
You don't need a barrel in the ring
Heavenly Guardian
Bride of death
unfinished business
Strong link
blood-colored oil
Clip of hate
Werewolf, take off your shoulder straps!
Werewolves in uniform
Possessed
Dangerous Choices
Matter of particular importance
Gurov's special move
Inveterate detectives
Capercaillie hunting
Macho hunting
Very big money
A couple of lives in reserve (compilation)
First target
First bullet - last bullet
PR during the plague
Permissiveness fee
Underground oligarch
figurehead
Fake killer
The deceased had no claims (Point of no return)
Police starfall (compilation)
Colonels from MUR
No one believes the colonel
November Wake
Wake for the prosecutor
Messenger of Phaethon
The last letter of the poet
Lost relative
Ripper human souls
Supremacy Gurov (compilation)
Traitor
Colonel Gurov's sentence
Trade secret
Missing president's daughter
The past is not for sale
Bullet ellipsis
Bullet for the head
Bullet from the past
Five minutes to pay
Small coin
Hands up, general!
Witness who did not see the light (compilation)
lead argument
Oligarch's safe
werewolf trail
Death in the big city
Death prefers midnight
Death is signed with blood
snow killer
List of those sentenced (compilation)
steel pen
Judge will be at midnight
Banker's son
Minister's Son
Syskari
The detective is wrong only once
taiga zone
Taiga Police
Taiga sniper
Where the artery beats (compilation)
Theater of a Killer
quiet island
point of no return
It's hard to be a thief
It's hard to steal a god
Murder Encore (compilation)
Assassination at the highest level
Murder on schedule
Full House Murder
The evidence burns with blue flames
Gurov's ultimatum. Ripper of human souls (compilation)
Succeed before death
Deviation Factory
Price tag for the general
Black surgeons
Purgatory for Gurov
Pure Murder (compilation)
Alien among strangers
Relay with a pistol
Echoes of default
New books 2017-2018
Yours among the sick
The show must not go on
Ultimate Pleasure [compilation]
Jewel Shot [Compilation]
Letter and number [compilation]
Parole Murder
police ring
Bandit's guide [compilation]
My daughter is a wolf [compilation]
Project of own death
You have to pay for everything
Death on the runway [compilation]
Elite Sins
Dangerous suit
The principle of life of Colonel Gurov [compilation]
Ruble overdose
Gurov goes for broke
Avenger from beyond
Gurov does not stand on ceremony
Gurov's last warning
call killer
Stolen money does not bequeath
double loop
Gurov vs. Gurov
Mafia surgeon [compilation]
Cursed Manor
Justice League Killer
I will kill you my love
Rebel Trucker
Trepanation of the past
Rendezvous with a noose around the neck (compilation)
The bullet loves its prey
Steel dessert [compilation]
corner cabinet
The Secret of the Golden Carriage
Death at our expense (compilation)
Predators
Inventor of Death [compilation]
old wound
Name: Detective Lev Gurov
Nikolay Leonov, Alexey Makeev
Publisher: Eksmo and others.
The year of publishing: 1975-2016
Language: Russian
Format: fb2, djvu
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The series has been expanded and re-uploaded.
Description:
Nikolay Ivanovich Leonov(1933-1999) - a well-known domestic writer and screenwriter, a classic of the Soviet detective story, author of popular novels and stories about the detective Lev Gurov. was born in Moscow. Received higher legal education.
Before becoming a professional writer, he worked for 10 years at MUR. He started from the very bottom: he guarded the suitcases of foreigners at railway stations, was engaged in the detention of pickpockets, stood at the buying sprees, catching stolen things. Then, having already become a big police chief, he claimed that knowledge of the "street" helps in the work of an operative of any rank.
In 1963, with the rank of captain, he left the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and took up literary work. The author of many famous books and screenplays - "Option" Omega "," Tavern on Pyatnitskaya ", a cycle of stories about Inspector Gurov.
Leonov is a screenwriter in 10 films. Also, 3 TV series based on his works were filmed.
After the death of Nikolai Ivanovich Leonov big number continuation of the cycle about the activities of the detective Lev Gurov wrote Alexey Makeev(who is unknown).
List of books:
Nikolay Leonov
01, 03 Shot in the back (compilation)
01 Surrender
02, 04, 03 Favorites. Volume 1 (compilation)
02, 04, 06 Trap. Destined to win. It's not evening yet (compilation)
02, 04 Destined to win (compilation)
02 Trap
03 Shot in the back
04 Destined to win
05-07 Professionals (compilation)
05 Professionals
06-08 Favorites. Volume 2 (compilation)
06 It's not evening yet
07 There are no free cakes!
08-09 Cop filthy (compilation)
08-10 Filthy cop (compilation)
08 Corruption
09-10 Favorites. Volume 3 (compilation)
09 cop filthy
10-11 Hitman (compilation)
10 Good luck, detective!
11-13 Confessions of a detective (compilation)
11 Hitman
12-13 Drug mafia (compilation)
12 Scarlet Blood
13 Drug Mafia
14 We are of the same blood
15, 20 Devil in Paradise (compilation)
15 Vengeance is just
16 Pay for Life
16, 14 Pay for life. You and I are of the same blood (compilation)
17 Cobra Throw
18 Jackals
19, 23 Mayhem (compilation)
19 Gurov's Defense
20 Devil in Paradise
21-22 Vultures (compilation)
21 Money or law
22 Vultures
23 Mayhem
24 Death Live
25 Trump Jacks
26 Handwriting of the executioner
27 Wolf ticket
28 A feast during the plague
Alexey Makeev
Alibi is not enough for everyone
Alibi from the other world
scam
swindlers
Velvet Murder
Velvet murder. Sky Guardian (compilation)
Run if you can
God of the Fire Lagoon (Pair of lives in reserve)
diamond bullet
You are assigned to die
In a pack of wolves
Widow for a Day
Virtuoso Robbery (Fictionist)
Wolf Pack
Eighth horizontal
Tower for a businessman
Grandmaster of Investigation
Walked death in a wedding veil (compilation)
Two bullets to the colonel
Deputy order (Captain of a pirate brig)
Ten Bullets on a Dead Man's Chest (Compilation)
Gentleman of Fortune
Gurov's dictatorship. Seller of the Motherland (compilation)
Dilemma
Diplomatic corpse (compilation)
The good face of evil
Debt by payment is terrible
Dollar equivalent
cruel justice
Backstairs
Frozen passion (compilation)
Beyond Violence (Compilation)
Ultimate pleasure
The Omen
The Perfect Scam
The Perfect Maniac
Perfect Maniac (Compilation)
Emerald Witness
spanish trap
Drop of royal blood
Catalog of killer services
witch love
The king beats the lady
Extreme measures
red card
Kremlin bullet (compilation)
Kremlin ace
Criminal mysticism
Ice Witness (compilation)
The cure for life
Justice League
Detective's file
Suite with Cemetery View
seasoned cop
bear corner
Little things detective
Cop roof
Cop hook
Dead Family (compilation)
The meeting place is appointed by the bullet
Moscow inquisitor
Man's business
muddy business
We are from the Russian police
Racing with a killer
You don't need a barrel in the ring
Heavenly Guardian
Bride of death
unfinished business
Strong link
blood-colored oil
Clip of hate
Werewolf, take off your shoulder straps!
Werewolves in uniform
Possessed
Dangerous Choices
Matter of particular importance
Gurov's special move
Inveterate detectives
Capercaillie hunting
Macho hunting
Very big money
A couple of lives in reserve (compilation)
First target
First bullet - last bullet
PR during the plague
Permissiveness fee
Underground oligarch
figurehead
Fake killer
The deceased had no claims (Point of no return)
Police starfall (compilation)
Colonels from MUR
No one believes the colonel
November Wake
Wake for the prosecutor
Messenger of Phaethon
The last letter of the poet
Lost relative
Ripper of human souls
Supremacy Gurov (compilation)
Traitor
Colonel Gurov's sentence
Trade secret
Missing president's daughter
The past is not for sale
Bullet ellipsis
Bullet for the head
Bullet from the past
Five minutes to pay
Small coin
Hands up, general!
Witness who did not see the light (compilation)
lead argument
Oligarch's safe
werewolf trail
Death in the big city
Death prefers midnight
Death is signed with blood
snow killer
List of those sentenced (compilation)
steel pen
Judge will be at midnight
Banker's son
Minister's Son
Syskari
The detective is wrong only once
taiga zone
Taiga Police
Taiga sniper
Where the artery beats (compilation)
Theater of a Killer
quiet island
point of no return
It's hard to be a thief
It's hard to steal a god
Murder Encore (compilation)
Assassination at the highest level
Murder on schedule
Full House Murder
The evidence burns with blue flames
Gurov's ultimatum. Ripper of human souls (compilation)
Succeed before death
Deviation Factory
Price tag for the general
Black surgeons
Purgatory for Gurov
Pure Murder (compilation)
Alien among strangers
Relay with a pistol
Echoes of default
Book publishers are happy to print their works. But it was not always so...
In ascetic Soviet times worthy light books were as scarce as food or quality clothing. Among them, detectives about the young detective Lev Gurov were especially in demand. But their author - Nikolai Leonov - was known for many works in which other characters acted, as well as film scripts, the level of which is inaccessible to many today's action films and bestsellers.
The difficult task of a biographer
Writer Nikolai Ivanovich Leonov is a difficult subject for writing a biography. He lived only 65 years and passed away in early 1999. The time when fame is acquired not by work, but by the frequency of mentioning on the network, was just beginning, and he, apparently, belonged to individuals who did not attach much importance to the recognition of their person. And extraordinary events in his life happened, apparently, a lot.
He was born in Moscow in 1933. According to some reports, in the Moscow legal institute he studied in the same group with another future classic of the Soviet detective - Georgy Vainer. After receiving a law degree, Nikolai Leonov went to work at the MUR - the capital's criminal investigation department - the legendary division of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Moscow.
Detective and athlete
He went from lieutenant to police captain, having worked "in the field" for a long time, doing the most ordinary search work. The first cases of the young operative were minor incidents related to petty theft and fraud in the markets of the capital. Nikolai Leonov served under Colonel Vladimir Chvanov, who is known as the prototype of the legendary Gleb Zheglov.
Friends and acquaintances note the similarity of the writer with his main literary hero - Lev Gurov - in terms of athletic bearing and good physical shape. This is no coincidence: Leonov was one of the first in the country to seriously engage in table tennis, at one time he was the captain, and then the coach of the national team in this technically complex super-fast sport. They say that as part of the team he was abroad, and once went to competitions in the United States.
Road choice
For what reason in 1963, after 10 years of service, he submitted a resignation letter from the police, it is difficult to say. Perhaps this is just a need for writing, maybe there were other reasons similar to those that interfered with Lev Gurov's career - the inability to adapt to circumstances to the detriment of one's own nature. The dismissal from the MUR surprised many: by that time, Captain Nikolai Leonov had become involved in large-scale investigations, in which he achieved tangible success.
But successes in literature did not come immediately. The first self-written book, Proceeding to the Detention (1965), is the result of numerous alterations and lengthy editing. Only gradually, as a result of strenuous efforts, cooperation with co-authors, Leonov developed a style and manner that put him forward in the first row of masters of the genre.
Fine-tuned and twisted intrigue, accuracy in psychology and life details were appreciated by filmmakers. Nikolai Leonov is a writer who gained fame as a screenwriter of films from the golden fund of Soviet film detectives.
"Tavern on Pyatnitskaya" and "Option" Omega "
Leonov's first film experience was the script "The Ring", a film based on which was released in 1973. A detective story from a sports life did not receive close attention from the audience. But the next two films based on his scripts became hits.
The story “Wait for my call” about the life of workers of the Soviet UGRO during its formation was filmed in 1978 under the title “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya”. The film was watched by more than 50 million viewers, it became one of the leaders in film distribution and nominated Leonov to the leading authors of detective stories. Russian TV channels now periodically show this movie.
Another masterpiece, filmed according to a script written with the participation of Leonov, is regularly repeated - the television series "Option" Omega "(1979). It is based on the story "Operation Viking" about a scout who operated in 1942 in occupied Tallinn. The confrontation between Sergei Skorin and the German counterintelligence officer von Schlosser is one of the first examples of works about the war, which showed that among the enemies, not all were miserable personalities and mentally handicapped people.
The brilliant play of Oleg Dal and Igor Vasiliev gives the film a shine, but they had something to play - the level of the literary basis of the film is very high.
Gurovsky series
Between the first novel about Lev Gurov - "The turnout" (1975) - and the one that came out shortly before the death of the writer - "A Feast during the Plague" (1998), more than two decades and a whole era passed. Husband and hardened main character, the methods and main goals of those who opposed him changed, the social way of life of the whole country collapsed. Nikolai Leonov, whose books to the smallest detail clearly reflected the world traveled this path together with the reader. A total of 28 stories and novels were published, where Gurov acts, first as a young lieutenant, and at the end as a seasoned lieutenant colonel. Many of them have been filmed with varying degrees of success.
The attention of readers and viewers to the main character of Leonov was explained by many things. Among these factors are the well-recognized merits of its appearance and internal content, inseparability from large or insignificant events that took place around, from the environment that surrounded everyone who lived in this country. But the main thing that resonated was the thirst for justice, which Gurov always lacked and which readers of novels about his adventures practically did not see.
Coincidences and predictions
Leonov's books have another property noted by many connoisseurs of good detective literature. The actions of the characters created by the writer are determined not by the unrestrained imagination of the author, but by the logic of the events that took place on different levels reality - from the spheres of high politics to communal life.
Surprisingly, the coincidence of the names of the main Leonov character and one of the legendary crime fighters Alexander Ivanovich Gurov. One of the first he identified the danger that arose in the bowels of a sick Soviet society organized crime, for which he was persecuted by the authorities armed with Soviet ideology. According to her, in the advanced social order there can be no prerequisites for the emergence of the mafia.
The mystical coincidences of the events of his own fate and those that happened to the hero of Leonov's books were noted by the current police lieutenant general and deputy himself. Career ups and downs, successes and defeats in the struggle against powerful evil first took place on the pages of books about Lev Ivanovich Gurov, and then in real life Alexander Ivanovich Gurov.
The last case of Lev Gurov, described by Leonov, is connected with a murder, to the smallest detail similar to the death of Galina Starovoitova, which became one of the motives for the writer to write A Feast during the Plague. The version that is voiced on its pages is considered by many to be worthy of the attention of those who have not yet completed an official investigation.
What to say in the end? The name of Nikolai Ivanovich Leonov is dear to many people, and every time they remember him with a kind word, rereading excellent books and reviewing films made according to his scripts.
In the resort town of Azure Cape, a major Moscow businessman Reshtin disappeared. Two Murov detectives Lev Gurov and Stas Kryachko flew in to look for him. Reshtin loved to scuba dive near the rocky shore, and there he disappeared. The detectives also had to become scuba divers. They explored the coastal zone and discovered a system of grottoes, in which a shop for the production of counterfeit dollars was set up. And the detectives also found an explosive device there, which should work in a matter of minutes ...
There are no free cakes!
Genre: DetectivesWhile on vacation, Lieutenant Colonel Gurov is involved in the investigation of a criminal case, the threads of which lead to Moscow. He goes to a powerful mafia corporation, headed by a major official. Having appreciated the talents of the detective, the head of the underground business offers Gurov to work for the corporation...
cobra toss
Genre: DetectivesOur life today gives many examples that people in the struggle for power are ready for anything. To carry out their dirty scenarios, they find "professionals" who stop at nothing, while they themselves, not involved in bloody dramas, continue their frightening political games. These are the people Colonels Lev Gurov faces in the new novel by the famous master of the criminal genre Nikolai Leonov.
Omega Variant (=Operation Viking)
Genre: FictionThe plot of the work "Option" Omega "is known to many: it formed the basis of one of the most famous films about the exploits of Soviet intelligence officers. Lieutenant Sergei Skorin, aka Hauptmann Paul Krieger, is doing everything to get him arrested and exposed. His opponent, Baron von Schlosser, may triumph - a Russian spy has been captured and has begun working for him. But not everything is so simple, and often what we take for a victory is actually a defeat.
wolf ticket
Genre: DetectivesTailoring a solution to a ready-made answer is not in Gurov's nature. If a suicide happened, and he is given out as a murder, and even an innocent person is blamed for this, it means that it is beneficial to someone. To whom? - Gurov finds out, believing that it is necessary to look for the reason for such a juggling. And the reason, as often happens, is big money. And the money hunter turns out to be very close - in his own ministry, and he is one of those with whom it is deadly dangerous to engage in a duel. And now Gurov should think about how to save his own head.
Wolf Pack
Genre: DetectivesThe directors of the Palestra special boarding school were nailed to the wall of their own office with an arrow fired from a crossbow. His deputy was found by an arrow on the day of the director's funeral. And a little earlier, a sentry guarding a warehouse with chemical warfare agents was killed with the same arrow, part of the poisonous weapon disappeared. And, according to MUR colonels Lev Gurov and Stanislav Kryachko, this is only the beginning of some kind of frightening provocation. Who is behind this? What goals does it pursue? In search of answers to these questions, the detectives visit the Palestra special boarding school. The fact that they are here ...
Inventor (Virtuoso Robbery)
Genre: DetectivesColonel Gurov has seen a lot of "criminal" talents. But this gang of gop-stoppers surprised even an experienced detective. These guys rob not just anyone, but only wealthy citizens. And each time they creatively approach the matter, work without misfires. And yet it is clear to Gurov that these bandits are newcomers. Nobody knows them, even the authorities shrug their shoulders and want to put impudent robbers in their place. Now bandits and the opera are following in the footsteps of dashing raiders. Some are ready to roll them under the asphalt, others - to put them on the bunk. On the high road, the massacre is cruel ...
Shot in the back
Genre: DetectivesTwo people were shot at point-blank range, killed with the same weapon. There are many suspects, and the criminal subtly directs the investigation on the wrong track. And although inspector Lev Gurov manages to figure out the intricacies of false and real evidence, the killer still remains out of reach for justice.
Grandmaster of Investigation
Genre: MiscellaneousThe killer struck his signature blow - with an awl in the carotid artery. The victim was an assistant to an influential Duma deputy. Colonel Lev Gurov led the investigation team. A few hours later, a local psychopath and drug addict with a criminal record was captured and confessed to the murder. The case was closed, and Gurov was sent on vacation. But he knew that the real killer was on the loose. And he began his own investigation. Because he's the best detective in the country. And because he cannot leave the criminal unpunished.
Two bullets to the colonel
Genre: DetectivesThe case of ordinary blackmail using pornography would not have been worth the attention of Colonel Lev Gurov of the MUR, if it had not suddenly overgrown with a number of seemingly unmotivated murders. A visit to the apartment of an unlucky blackmailer turned into a fight with three unknown people, as a result of which Gurov almost got a bullet. Whose interests did the extortionist hurt with his porno concoction, if Gurov had to carry out an operation with the participation of riot police to find out?
