V jetot sbornik voshli povesti i rasskazy o znamenitom Sherloke Holmse. Peru anglijskogo pisatelja, publicista i zhurnalista Artura Konan Dojla prinadlezhat istoricheskie, prikljuchencheskie, fantasticheskie romany i trudy po spiritizmu, no v mirovuju literaturu on voshel kak sozdatel' samogo Velikogo Syshhika vseh vremen i narodov - Sherloka Holmsa. Blagorodnyj i besstrashnyj borec so Zlom, obladatel' ostrogo uma i neobyknovennoj nabljudatel'nosti, s pomoshh'ju svoego deduktivnogo metoda syshhik reshaet samye zaputannye golovolomki, zachastuju spasaja jetim chelovecheskie zhizni. On genial'no perevoploshhaetsja, obladaet akterskim darom i umeet postavit' jeffektnuju tochku v konce kazhdogo blestjashhe provedennogo im rassledovanija. Obo vsjom jetom i ne tol'ko v knige Prikljuchenija Sherloka Holmsa. Prikljuchenija Sherloka Holmsa i doktora Uotsona - ne prosto klassika detektivnoj literatury. Ne prosto knigi, kotorymi zachityvajutsja uzhe sto let. Ne prosto proizvedenija, perevedennye na vse sushhestvujushhie jazyki. Prikljuchenija Sherloka Holmsa i doktora Uotsona - jeto samye znamenitye detektivnye istorii na svete. Ih ljubjat. Ih pomnjat. Ih jekranizirovali besschetnoe chislo raz. Oni - luchshie iz luchshih. Dazhe vremja ne vlastno nad velichajshim syshhikom vseh vremen i narodov Sherlokom Holmsom i ego vernym drugom doktorom Uotsonom. Illjustrirovannoe izdanie!
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.