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Sherlock Holmes in Russia
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Sherlock Holmes in Russia

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Thanks to the Sherlockian historian George Piliev and translator Alex Auswaks, this remarkable collection of seven Russian Sherlock Holmes stories is now available in English for the first time. Piliev tells the fascinating story of how these tales came to be written, in the context of the Sherlockian phenomenon in Russia. He explains how Holmes reached an even greater audience when Russian writers decided to transport him and Watson from Baker Street to Russia, on the premise that they traveled widely in the country and became fluent in the language. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traveled the length of Russia solving the most difficult and unimaginable cases and pursued all the while by an implacable Russian Moriarty. Instead of mainly dealing with murders, these stories are more diverse, covering kidnapping, a strange problem in a shop, theft, and corruption.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRobert Hale
Release dateOct 1, 2009
ISBN9780709092575
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    Doesn't really match to the exacting standards most Sherlockians expect. I expected a wee bit of intrigue at least, but together with the narration this was more Hardy Boys than Sherlock Holmes. The plots also gives insights into the Russian fiction of those days.