English physician and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known worldwide 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 short stories and novels, made long ago and by many different translators, suffer from known shortcomings: discrepancies, omissions, outright errors. We offer you the third volume (the novel "The Sign of Four", the collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes") from a four-volume collection with a complete translation of the entire Holmes canon. This is a truly unique edition: all the works in 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, each volume is provided with a large number of classic drawings and additional materials: prefaces to early publications, Conan Doyle's memoirs concerning certain works, and some interviews with the writer. Plus, this volume is accompanied by extensive comments.This book includes a complete set of illustrations by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of The Return of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, as well as illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt for an early German edition of The Sign of the Four. Read more…