Nadezhda Lebedeva, a middle-aged housewife, cannot sit in the kitchen with a TV and ladle. And all because the beloved cat Basic has been possessed by the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, and now the tailed detective will drag her into the most implausible adventures. Just look at the story of the theft of an ancient painting, and not from anywhere, but directly from the Museum of Devils, which is under the protection of you know who. But Nadezhda Nikolaevna is not the right person to retreat from damned difficulties, especially when Sherlock himself is about to meow the solution to a terrible secret in his ear... The book was also published under the title “The Red Cat in a Dark Room.”