The stories of June Thomson, a famous English writer, continue the theme of returning to the reader Dr. Watson's forgotten or lost notes about his famous friend. The author successfully preserves in his works the general spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle's work, using plots that could well have occurred to the great writer himself. The reader will find here cunning villains committing brilliant scams, and the most intricate robberies and murders, the solution to which, however, in the end seems completely transparent thanks to the ageless talent of the great detective. The subtle and moderately ironic language of the stories conveys that successfully found atmosphere of intellectual investigation, which provided Sherlock Holmes with unprecedented and well-deserved popularity.