Thanks to the Sherlockian historian George Piliev and translator Alex Auswaks,
 this remarkable collection of seven Russian Sherlock Holmes stories is now available
 in English for the first time. Piliev tells the fascinating story of how these tales
 came to be written, in the context of the Sherlockian phenomenon in Russia. He explains
 how Holmes reached an even greater audience when Russian writers decided to transport
 him and Watson from Baker Street to Russia, on the premise that they traveled widely
 in the country and became fluent in the language. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
 traveled the length of Russia solving the most difficult and unimaginable cases and
 pursued all the while by an implacable Russian Moriarty. Instead of mainly dealing
 with murders, these stories are more diverse, covering kidnapping, a strange problem
 in a shop, theft, and corruption.
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