Oxford students are puzzled, frightened, driven to the edge by the mysterious proximity of a mysterious and dangerous creature, which they suspect lives in their neighbor's room. Who could it be? Dog? Monkey? Or are the strange events taking place in an ancient English tower covered with ivy connected with a terrible, black and dried-out ancient Egyptian mummy, looking like a gnarled, charred firebrand? What is hidden by her sinister owner - an expert in oriental languages? You have never encountered such a Conan Doyle! Evil zombies, charming priestesses of savage cults, black magicians, vengeful hypnotists... in a collection of bibliographic rarities from the world famous author Sherlock Holmes.