Cronin came to the stories about Doctor Finlay from a small Scottish town, about his senior colleague Doctor Cameron and his imperturbable housekeeper Janet Archibald Cronin as an already accomplished writer, with several novels under his belt, including the one that made him famous, Castle Brodie. However, it is these tragic, funny and touching stories, full of colorful characters, that still remain the most popular and famous works of the writer and formed the basis of a very successful BBC series, which was broadcast on television from 1962 to 1971 (the first two Cronin himself wrote the script). The two collections in which they were included (both included in the Russian edition) are published all over the world to this day. Finally, the famous “Diary of Doctor Finlay” comes to our reader. For the first time in Russian!