His Last Bow

His Last Bow gathers eight Sherlock Holmes stories that Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine between 1893 and 1917, and was issued as a book by John Murray in October 1917.

The cases range from the sinister household of Wisteria Lodge and the theft of the Bruce-Partington submarine plans to a feigned deathbed, a vanished lady and a family stricken by madness in Cornwall. The title story is set on the eve of the First World War, when Holmes comes out of retirement for one last service to his country.

Readers who know Holmes and Watson from the novels will find the partnership at full strength here, with Holmes's brother Mycroft making a brief appearance in the Bruce-Partington case.