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His Last Bow: The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617204845
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Dec 2 2011
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sherlock Holmes returns in a powerful final collection of mysteries that brings together deduction, espionage, intrigue, and the gathering shadows of war in some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most mature and atmospheric stories. In His Last Bow, Holmes and Dr. Watson confront international conspiracies, hidden enemies, secret codes, political deception, and dangerous criminal schemes as the great detective approaches the closing chapter of his remarkable career.
Originally published in 1917, the collection includes several celebrated Holmes adventures, among them The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, The Adventure of the Red Circle, and the title story His Last Bow, in which Holmes emerges from retirement to serve Britain during the tense years preceding the First World War. The stories combine the classic deductive brilliance of the earlier canon with darker undertones of espionage, nationalism, and global uncertainty reflective of a changing modern world.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories transformed detective fiction and established many of the conventions of the modern mystery story. Blending intellectual puzzle-solving, memorable atmosphere, vivid characterization, and tightly constructed suspense, His Last Bow stands as both an essential Holmes collection and a fitting late-career portrait of literature's greatest consulting detective.
Ideal for readers of classic mystery fiction, Sherlock Holmes adventures, British detective stories, espionage fiction, Edwardian literature, and timeless literary classics.
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