Giorgio Scherbanenko (real name - Volodymyr 1911, Kyiv - 1969, Milan), the son of a Ukrainian and an Italian, 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 "The Web of Betrayal", "Young Bouzourians", "Milanese Kill on Saturdays" were published by "Folio" publishing house. "Private Venus" (1966) is the first novel with the main character Duca Lamberti, who immediately attracted the attention of critics and readers after his publication. As soon as he is released from prison, Duka gets a difficult job - to cure drunkenness and look after David Auseri, the son of a rich financial businessman. Finding out the reasons for his ward's guilt and even preventing him from attempting suicide, Duka exposes a powerful international organization for the supply of high-end prostitutes ...
