About the book: year / For several years, the American magazine "Journal of Chemical Education" has been publishing entertaining stories by T.G. Waddell and T.R. Ribolt about the chemical adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The authors break the story into two parts. At the end of the first part they pose chemical questions, the answers to which lead to the solution of the crime, and in the second part they give the answer through the mouth of their hero - the famous detective. Translations into Russian, or rather retellings, of many of these stories for publication in the newspaper “Chemistry” were prepared by Mendeleev University professor E.G. Rakov. Now the newspaper is publishing his own story about the chemical adventures of Sherlock Holmes.