Did we have our own Sherlock Holmeses, real police detectives with a capital P? Of course they were! And among them, the first place rightfully belongs to the genius of Russian detective Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin (1830–1893). The legendary adventures of Putilin, the Russian Sherlock Holmes, were described in the books of Roman Lukich Antropov, who wrote under the pseudonym Roman Dobry. In them, as well as in foreign Sherlockians, the narration is told from the perspective of Putilin’s friend, a doctor who helps investigate cases. On the pages of the collection of stories by Roman Dobry, the reader encounters both everyday criminal crimes and more sophisticated criminal plots: here are bloody murders, and Jewish octopuses conducting secret affairs, and missing wills, and fatal beauties, and swindlers disguised as ghosts, and much more...