Amateur Private Detective Dasha Vasilyeva Series (Lubitelnitsa chastnogo syska Dasha Vassilyeva)
29 titles

Rights sold: Bulgaria, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Turkey.

Dasha Vasilieva, a modest teacher of French at a Moscow university, unexpectedly inherits the estate of a Parisian nobleman. Soon thereafter she quits her dead-end teaching and moves to Paris with her entourage of family and pets and finds a new meaning of her life working as a private detective. Having solved her first murder mystery, she gets a taste for investigations and can’t stop any more. She divides her life between her Paris residence and a luxurious house in one of Moscow’s fashionable suburbs enjoying detective business and bringing continuous headache to both French and Russian police.

Evlampia Romanova: The Dilettante Investigator (Evlampia Romanova : Sledstvie vedet diletant)
21 titles

Rights sold: Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania

Like Dasha Vassilieva series, Evlampia balance criminal mystery with situational comedy and melodrama, all grafted onto a gently ironic portrayal of contemporary Russian circumstances.
Evlampia Romanova is a thirty-something pampered wife of a wealthy new Russian. Having discovered that her spouse had been unfaithful, she runs away from her comfortable house and thereafter is “adapted” by a family of complete strangers whom she encounters in the street. Since
then Evlampia shares with them a small apartment and crazy everyday life helping her new family to get out of multiple troubles and solving intricate criminal cases.

Viola Tarakanova: in the World of Criminal Passions (Viola Tarakanova: v mire prestupnykh strastei)
17 titles

Rights sold: Estonia
This series features a twenty year old girl, Viola, an orphan, whose life can hardly be called easy. To earn her leaving she does any jobs. In spite all this Viola, like other Darija Dontsova’s protagonists, is an open-minded, altruistic person and other peoples’ misfortunes just can’t leave her unfazed. Because of this she often finds herself deeply involved in complete strangers’ lives helping them to get out of serious troubles. Thus she discovers that her true mission is to be a private detective…

The Gentleman Detective Ivan Podushkin (Dzhentlemen syska Ivan Podushkin)
13 titles

Rights sold: Estonia
Ivan Podushkin is a pleasant, handsome young man who works as an assistant and legman for Eleonora, a wealthy but physically handicapped elderly woman who has established her own Charity Foundation to help deprived and invalid people in trouble. She receives lots of disturbing letters and charges Ivan Podushkin with handling all investigations that take place outside her apartment…