This story has no connection with the famous Ukrainian Sergei Sergeyevitch Prokofiev, the composer of several operas, symphonies, film scores and other musical works nor with anyone else, alive or dead, real or fictional.
The story is a kind of whodunnit, but for anyone peeking to the end to discover the outcome, the author’s advice is DON’T;
it would spoil the whole point of the novel for you...
...and, yes, it does start with Chapter 0.
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