![]() ![]() Each crime is solved using the intense observation, out-of-the-box thinking, and leaps of intuition of which only Holmes is capable. “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” the murder is a secondary issue. Most involve murder, but there is one (“The Adventure of the Three Students”) that involves a “crime” as mundane as test theft, and in some cases, e.g. The other twelve stories of the collection stand alone among the larger canon, and follow the usual Holmes narrative weave. In the first story in this collection, “The Adventure of the Empty House,” we discover that Holmes didn’t die, and has been exploiting his reputed death, playing a game of cat-and-mouse against the remnants of Moriarty’s gang, notably the deadly, Col. At the end of “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” Doyle leads us to believe Holmes and his nemesis, Moriarty, wrestled off the Reichenbach Falls, plummeting to stony deaths. Doyle had tried to kill off the Holmes character so that he could work on other projects. This short story collection is the sixth book in the Sherlock Holmes canon, and – as the title suggests – it marks the return of the famous fictional detective after a hiatus. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle ![]()
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