The House of Silk

In the literary and cinematographic world, there is no more popular hero than Sherlock Holmes. This name became a sensation in the 1890s thanks to publications in the magazine «Strand», whose circulation immediately increased by a third. In terms of adaptations, the story of the detective from Baker Street made it into the Guinness World Records. The number of literary pastiches is beyond count, but only Anthony Horowitz received official approval from the Conan Doyle Estate for his novel «The House of Silk». In the career of the great detective, there was a case related to such monstrous and scandalous events that it took Watson, the eternal narrator of the most captivating stories about his brilliant friend, a long time to decide to write about it. He carefully packed these notes, sent them for safekeeping to a reliable place, and bequeathed that the package should not be opened any earlier than a hundred years, because the secret hidden in it, called «The House of Silk», threatened to undermine all the foundations of society...