English doctor and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known around the world as an unsurpassed master of the detective genre, the author of many works about the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson. Classical translations of these stories and novels, made long ago and by many different translators, suffer from known shortcomings: discrepancies, omissions, outright mistakes. Your attention is invited to the second volume (the novel "Valley of Fear", the collection "Notes on Sherlock Holmes") from the four-volume collection with a complete translation of the entire Holmes canon. This is a truly unique edition: all the works of the cycle have been translated anew by Lyudmila Brilova and Sergey Sukharev — masters whose translations by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ray Bradbury, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Palliser, Thomas De Quincey, Herman Melville and others have long become classics. At the same time, many additional materials are included in each volume: prefaces to early publications, Conan Doyle's memoirs concerning certain works, some interviews of the writer. Plus, each volume is provided with extensive comments and richly illustrated with the best classical drawings. This book includes a complete set of illustrations that accompanied the original publication of "Notes on Sherlock Holmes" and "Valley of Fear" in the Strand magazine, by Sidney Paget and Frank Wiles, respectively.