Not many people know this, but it turns out that the legendary English detective Sherlock Holmes helped investigate the most tangled criminal cases not only in England, but also in Russia.
Even though he originally came to Nizhny Novgorod not for business, but for rest and a desire to get to know faraway Russia more closely—about which the English only had vague notions—he couldn’t keep his identity secret. Everywhere Holmes had to watch himself from the curious townspeople and hear his name whispered. He thought that attention would be limited to mere curiosity, but in reality it turned out to be otherwise…