For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by the modern classic Dan Simmons, a kind of completion of the conventional trilogy begun by the novels “The Terror” and “Drud, or the Man in Black.” So, traveling incognito after his “death” at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes meets in Paris the American writer Henry James, a modern classic, author of such books as “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Bostonians,” and “The Turn of the Screw.” He recognizes the famous detective, despite all his disguise, and finds himself drawn into the orbit of his new investigation. Together with Holmes, James goes to America, where he has not been for many years; the master of words must help the father of the deductive method solve the mystery of the death of Clover Adams, the wife of the historian Henry Adams (heir to the dynasty that has already given America two presidents), and also answer the question that has been tormenting Holmes for the last few years: is he a fictional character?..< /p>