The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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4.5 • 400 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents'. Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, 'The Empty House', Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of his cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve and a challenging set of adversaries to defeat. The potent mixture includes murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms and robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruellest villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Those for whom the Oxford University Press edition (1993) was not the final word on the canon won't want to miss the latest volume in the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and edited by Leslie S. Klinger. As David Stuart Davies notes in his introduction, Klinger provides annotations at once "scholarly, instructive and enlightening," as well as chronologies for the individual stories and a bibliography of secondary works.
Customer Reviews
Holmes. The nineteenth century Englishman.
So good to read again prose that fore-runs the modern madness of Political Correctness and before laws were passed that proposed freedom but resulted in slavery.
The high scented aroma of freedom of speech, for which we were told a war was waged and won, evokes the memory of all born in England before 1939.
Missing Graphics
Excellent stories and well-written - well, it is Sherlock Holmes. However, where a picture, map or diagram should have been in the text, the word "GRAPHIC" appeared instead. Sadly, this detracted from my overall enjoyment of the book. Not seeing the intended illustractions - which were not essential to follow the storyline - made me feel as if I were missing out.
bradshaw
i enjoyed reading these stories, entertaining but to easy to work out the endings.