About the book: 2013 / The story sheds light on a blind spot in the life and exploits of Sherlock Holmes and worthy complements the classic series of adventures of the Great Detective. Holmes returns to a case that has not ceased to occupy him for thirty long years: a certain James Phillimore, leaving the house, returned for an umbrella - and no one ever saw him again. Holmes tried to deal with this incident at the very beginning of his career and returned to it at the end of the spring of 1906.