The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of 13 stories published in 1905. After Holmes's apparent death in 1893, Doyle faced intense pressure to revive his famous detective. This collection marks the character's dramatic comeback, beginning with Holmes reappearing in London and explaining his mysterious absence from 1891 to 1894. The stories follow the detective and Watson through new cases of murder, blackmail, and cryptic mysteries across England.
About the author
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician who began writing Sherlock Holmes stories while waiting for patients who did not come. He modelled the detective on Joseph Bell, an Edinburgh surgeon who could name a stranger's trade and recent travels from the state of his hands and boots. Doyle thought his historical novels the serious work, killed Holmes off at the Reichenbach Falls in 1893, and was pushed into resurrecting him by public protest and a great deal of money. He spent his last decades campaigning for spiritualism, and twice for men he believed wrongly convicted.