Этюд в багровых тонах. Знак четырех. A Study in Scarlet. Four Signs. About Sherlock Holmes N

Artur Konan Doyl (1859–1930) – angliyskiy pisatel', otdavshiy dan' prakticheski vsem literaturnym zhanram, no naiboleye izvestnyy kak avtor detektivnykh, istoriko-priklyuchencheskikh i fantasticheskikh proizvedeniy. I, konechno zhe, kak sozdatel' znamenitogo tandema – Sherloka Kholmsa i doctorate Uotsona. Knigi o genial'nom syshchike i yego prostovatom naparnike perevedeny prakticheski na vse yazyki mira, Kholms i Uotson stali geroyami beschislennykh literaturnykh podrazhaniy, displayizatsiy i teatral'nykh postanovok. Proshlo uzhe bol'she sta let s togo momenta, kak byl napechatan pervyy rasskaz, a chitateli vsego mira po-prezhnemu s upoyeniyem pogruzhayutsya v mir interesneyshikh opasnykh priklyucheniy Sherloka Kholmsa i yego predannogo druga, v mir tumannykh londonskikh ulits, kh bolot i vereskovykh pustoshey . V znamenitoy povesti "Etyud v bagrovykh tonakh" – pervom proizvedenii "sherlokiany" – Sherlok Kholms rassleduyet zagadochnoye ubiystvo v starom dome, v zloveshchem "Znake chetyrekh" pomogayet osirotevshey yunoy osobe dobit'sya spravedlivosti, v rasskaze "Sere bryanyy" – … a vprochem, chitayte "Zapiski o Sherloke Kholmse" i naslazhdaytes'!