The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2018
Language: swe
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English
Description: <p><i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> is the third collection of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/sherlock-holmes">Holmes</a> stories by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>, published in 1905. It includes stories published in <i>The Strand Magazine</i> in 1903 and 1904, bringing Holmes for the first time into the twentieth century.</p>
			<p>Doyle had memorably “killed off” Holmes in a struggle with his nemesis Professor Moriarty in the story “The Final Problem,” which had appeared in 1893 (and which is included in the collection <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes">The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>). Intense public demand for more Holmes material after that had led to Doyle writing the novel <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i>, and then finally to return to writing Holmes short stories once more. The first story in this collection, “The Adventure of the Empty House” finds <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Watson united once again with his old friend Sherlock Holmes, who explains how and why he faked his death at Reichenbach Falls.</p>
			<p>Apart from the leading story which “resurrects” Holmes, this collection contains a number of the best-known Holmes stories. “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” has Holmes deciphering a cryptogram to solve a mystery; encountering a callous blackmailer in “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton;” working out why cheap busts of Napoleon are being shattered all over London; and possibly averting a major European war in “The Adventure of the Second Stain.”</p>