Published in 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was the second
collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It
contains 11 stories all of which appeared in the Strand Magazine in
1892-93. Conan Doyle meant The Final Problem to be Sherlock s last
chapter. However, muc..
One foggy afternoon, out of work Sherlock Holmes is busy revealing his
philosophy of life to Dr. Watson and Mrs. Hudson, the land lady. They
are interrupted by the arrival of a Miss Mary Morstan, a petit, young
but distressed woman, who has come to Holmes for help. She tells Holmes
that her ..
The Baskervilles have long been believed to be cursed. When Sir Charles
Baskerville dies of a heart attack, his horror-stricken face and the
footprints of a monstrous hound near his dead body tell a different
story than the obvious natural cause. When Sir Henry, the only known
living Baskerv..
Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message. Unfortunately, he deciphers it
much too late. It warned of a murder. A dead man now lies on the floor,
at Birlstone House in Sussex, his head blown to pieces. The Scotland
Yard have a plausible theory about how the murder may have happened.
However, ..
The zoologist Professor Challenger claims that the prehistoric life
still exists on a plateau in South America s Amazon basin but no one
believes him. When an adventurous reporter Edward Malone meets him, they
embark along with a scientist Professor Summerlee and an Amazon
adventurer Lord Jo..
Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message. Unfortunately, he deciphers it
much too late. It warned of a murder. A dead man now lies on the floor,
at Birlstone House in Sussex, his head blown to pieces. The Scotland
Yard have a plausible theory about how the murder may have happened.
However, ..
'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In
this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid
detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve
cases that puzzle clients, baffle t..
The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand Magazine before their publication in book form in 1892. Having appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes was already very popular but their publication immortalized him. "A Scandal in..
Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” (1893), the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. However, he succumbed to the public pressure and resurrected him after a gap of nearly ten years in “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903), the first story in this volume. It must h..
'His Last Bow', the title story of this
collection, tells how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to
help the Government fight the German threat at the approach of the First
World War. The Prime Minister himself requests Holmes's services to
hunt down the remarkable German agent, Vo..