Proshlo uzhe bol'she sta let s togo momenta, kak byl napechatan pervyy rasskaz o Sherloke Kholmse, a chitateli vsego mira po-prezhnemu s upoyeniyem pogruzhayutsya v mir interesneyshikh opasnykh priklyucheniy, osobuyu prelest' kotorykh sostavlyayet tverdaya uverennost' v tom, chto vse zakonchitsya khorosho, ved' rasskazov-to – neskol'ko dyuzhin! gus' s syurprizom… No glavnoye – glavnoye, chto zdes' budet, – eto udivitel'naya atmosfera staroy dobroy Anglii so vsemi yeye kraskami, zapakhami i zvuka ...