About the book: year / Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as "The Noise of Time", " A Premonition of the End”, “England, England”, “Flaubert’s Parrot”, “Love and So On”, “History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters” and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and directions in his works. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, sophisticated lyricism and sarcasm bordering on cynicism, aggressive toughness and cheerful mischief - Barnes is capable of all this and much more. In the novel "Arthur and George" - which, like many other books by Barnes, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize awards - the investigation is led by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. The literary father of Sherlock Holmes decides to use the deductive method in investigating the most scandalous case of late Victorian England - the case of the mysterious murder of cattle on farms near Birmingham. His goal is to prove that provincial lawyer George Edalji, accused of this crime, is innocent. So how effective are the methods of Sherlock Holmes in reality? In 2015, a film adaptation of the same name was released on the BBC channel (directed by Stuart Orme, starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali, Charles Edwards, Hattie Morahan, Emma Fielding). The novel is published in a new translation.