"Испытательный срок" - одна из лучших повестей Павла Нилина. В ней увлекательно и достоверно показана работа двух молодых стажеров уголовного розыска. Это повесть о человечности, доверии, социалистическом гуманизме.
Pavel Filippovich Nilin (Павел Филиппович Нилин, January 16 [o.s. January 3] 1908, Irkutsk, Russian Empire – October 2, 1981, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet writer, journalist and playwright, best known for a novel called A Man Goes Uphill (1936), adapted to the big screen under the title A Great Life, for which he, as a scriptwriter, received the Stalin Prize in 1941. Highly popular was his 1956 novel Cruelty.