The collection includes stories by Russian fiction writer Pavel Orlovets, dedicated to completely incredible adventures of the famous detectives Sherlock Holmes and his American colleague Nat Pinkerton. It happened that both of them ended up in Russia at the same time and immediately found themselves at the epicenter of criminal events. Using different methods of investigation, the detectives unravel clever combinations devised by the most cunning and daring Russian criminals—among other cases, they investigate a case involving a criminal submarine and the king of scammers, expose a secret organization of smugglers, and also unmask a treacherous kidnapper of women from the Caucasus.