Giorgio Scherbanenko (real name Volodymyr; 1911, Kyiv - 1969, Milan), the son of a Ukrainian and an Italian woman, is rightly called the father of an Italian detective. During his life he wrote women's novels, and over the years he published a series of works, the protagonist of which was Duca Lamberti - a former doctor and then a private detective, intelligent, educated, with high professional qualities, representing the type of modern European investigator, while remaining the embodiment of Italianness. J. Scherbanenko's novels "Private Venus", "The Net of Betrayal", "Milanese Kill on Saturdays" were published by "Folio" publishing house. Young Bouzouri, the third novel in a series about Dooke Lamberti, was published in 1968. After a successful investigation, Duka receives official permission to work in the police. He is instructed to investigate the brutal rape of a young evening school teacher. At first glance, everything is clear as day: a bunch of drunken students drive away the accumulated rage on a defenseless woman, whose only fault was a sincere desire to re-educate hardened hooligans, swindlers and thieves. But suddenly behind the backs of young bouzourians grows a mysterious figure of the organizer ...