
Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions)
After Sherlock Holmes “died” in 1893 at the Reichenbach Falls at the end of the story “The Final Problem,” Arthur Conan Doyle was inundated with pleas from fans around the world to revive him. Doyle resisted for nearly eight years before publishing The Hound of the Baskervilles, a reminiscence set two years before Holmes’s fatal fall. Only in 1903 was Sherlock Holmes “resurrected” in his first new...
After Sherlock Holmes “died” in 1893 at the Reichenbach Falls at the end of the story “The Final Problem,” Arthur Conan Doyle was inundated with pleas from fans around the world to revive him. Doyle resisted for nearly eight years before publishing The Hound of the Baskervilles, a reminiscence set two years before Holmes’s fatal fall. Only in 1903 was Sherlock Holmes “resurrected” in his first new...