Several murders have been committed in the city. The crimes are united by one strange detail: near each corpse (all those killed are men), the police find a volume of a rare edition from Shakespeare's collected works. Operas have a version that the murderer is a woman, and the reason for her crimes can be either revenge or love. This idea is confirmed when it becomes known that all men, before their deaths, advertised in the newspaper in the dating section. The opera is organized, the so-called "live bait" catching. They advertise in the same newspaper in the hope that the perpetrator will respond