About the book: 1920 / One of the strangest detectives in the world, Maurice Klau does not wander through the London dungeons with a revolver and does not talk by the fireplace about the intricacies of the deductive method. He... sleeps and solves criminal mysteries in his sleep. The murder of a portrait painter in a secluded workshop and the theft of the precious Blue Rajah diamond, a ghost in the Grange and a mysterious story with headless mummies: Klaw is able to defeat the most sophisticated criminal. Investigations of Maurice Klaw and his beautiful daughter Isis - in Sax Rohmer's classic book The Sleeping Detective. This book by Rohmer, creator of the sinister Doctor Fu Manchu, is being translated into Russian for the first time.