Indian motifs are often found in the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes, so borrowing the title of one of these stories should not be considered an encroachment on the classics. The abandoned city of Fatehpur Sikri was built four and a half centuries ago as the capital of the Mughal Empire by the founder of the dynasty, the great Akbar I. Masters of different schools and traditions of India took part in the construction of the red sandstone city. He did not stay in the capital for long, only 14 years.→