One of the strangest detectives in the world, Maurice Klau does not wander through London's dungeons with a revolver and does not talk by the fireplace about the intricacies of the deductive method. He... sleeps and solves criminal mysteries in his sleep. The murder of a portrait painter in a secluded workshop and the theft of the precious Blue Rajah diamond, a ghost in the Grange and a mysterious story with headless mummies: Klaw is able to defeat the most sophisticated criminal. Investigations of Maurice Klaw and his beautiful daughter Isis - in Sax Rohmer's classic book The Sleeping Detective. This book by Rohmer, the creator of the sinister doctor Fu Manchu, is being translated into Russian for the first time. Translation and foreword by A. Sherman.