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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)

13 Tales of Mystery & Suspense—Including the Incredible Story of Sherlock Holmes’s Return from the Dead This Top Five Classics edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes features: • All 95 Strand illustrations by Sidney Paget—his final drawings of Sherlock Holmes • An additional 13 illustrations by Frederick Dorr Steele, created for Collier’s magazine • A helpful introduction, author bio, and bibliography The return of Sherlock Holmes, 10 years after his “death” at the hands of Professor Moriarty, was one of the most hotly anticipated events of the new century in 1903. Arthur Conan Doyle had teased his loyal fans with his 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, a story that took place two years before Holmes plummeted into the Reichenbach Falls. With “The Empty House,” the first story in this collection, Dr. Watson and the world finally learned how Holmes cheated the Grim Reaper and feigned mortality for three years—as he tidies up one last loose end in his battle against Moriarty’s criminal apparatus. The Return of Sherlock Holmes finds Conan Doyle at the height of his creative powers, producing 13 of his finest mysteries for the inimitable Holmes to solve. No Sherlock Holmes collection would be complete without it.

At that instant Holmes sprang like a tiger on to the marksman's back, and hurled
him flat upon his face. He was up again in a moment, and with convulsive
strength he seized Holmes by the throat, but I struck him on the head with the butt
of my revolver, and he dropped again upon the floor. I fell upon him, and as I held
him my comrade blew a shrill call upon a whistle. There was the clatter of running
feet upon the pavement, and two policemen in uniform, with one plain-clothes
detective ...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)

The Adventure Of The Empty House The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder The Adventure Of The Dancing Men The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist The Adventure Of The Priory School The Adventure Of Black Peter The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons The Adventure Of The Three Students The Adventure Of The Golden Pince-Nez The Adventure Of The Missing Three-Quarter The Adventure Of The Abbey Grange The Adventure Of The Second Stain

"Dear me!" said Holmes, and he smiled in a singular way as he glanced at our
companion. "Well, if there is nothing to be learned here, we had bestgo inside."
The lecturer unlocked the outer door and ushered usinto his room. We stood at
the entrance while Holmesmadean examination of the carpet . "I am afraid there
arenosigns here," said he."One could hardly hope for any upon so dry a day.
Your servant seems to have quite recovered. You left him in a chair, you say.
Which chair?