The Valley of Fear. Notes on Sherlock Holmes with illustrations.

English doctor and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known worldwide as the unmatched master of the detective genre, the author of numerous works about the genius detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson. Classic translations of these stories and novels, made long ago by many different translators, suffer from known drawbacks: discrepancies, omissions, and outright errors. We present to your attention the second volume (the novel «The Valley of Fear», the collection «Notes on Sherlock Holmes») of a four-volume set with a complete translation of the entire Holmes canon. This is truly a unique edition: all works of the cycle have been newly translated by Lyudmila Brilova and Sergey Sukharev — masters whose translations of Kazuo Ishiguro and Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Palliser, Thomas De Quincey, Herman Melville, and others have long since become classics. Moreover, each volume includes a wealth of additional materials: prefaces to early publications, memories of Conan Doyle related to various works, some interviews with the writer. Plus, each volume is equipped with extensive commentary and richly illustrated with the best classical drawings. This book includes the complete set of illustrations that accompanied the original publication of «Notes on Sherlock Holmes» and «The Valley of Fear» in the magazine «Strand», — Sydney Paget and Frank Wilds respectively.