Four sign. Roading Sherlock Holmes

The English doctor and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known to the whole world as an unsurpassed master of the detective genre, the author of many works about the ingenious detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson. The classic translations of these stories and novels, made for a long time and many different translators, suffer from certain shortcomings: discrepancies, gaps, frank mistakes. The third volume is offered to your attention (the novel “Sign of four”, the collection “Return of Sherlock Holmes”) from a four -volume with a full translation of the entire Kholmovsky canon. This is truly a unique publication: all the works of the cycle were re -translated by Lyudmila Brilova and Sergey Sukharev - the masters whose translations of Cazuo Isiguro and Ray Bradbury, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Palliser, Thomas de Quincy, German Melville and others have long become classic. At the same time, each volume includes many additional materials: preface to early publications, memories of Conan Doyle regarding certain works, some interviews of the writer. Plus, each volume is equipped with vast comments and is richly illustrated by the best classic drawings. This book includes a complete set of illustrations of Sidney Padzht, accompanied by the initial publication of Sherlock Holmes Return in the magazine Stand, as well as the illustrations of Richard Gutshmidt to the early German edition of the “sign of four”