His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192123157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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For Britain, Watson! Dash Manchette Although a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, I was not a big fan of the book, THE VALLEY OF FEAR, which preceded this collection of stories. Fortunately, HIS LAST BOW found Sir Arthur Conan Doyle back in form. The eight stories in this volume, for the most part, hold up well when compared to those in earlier works. Sure, at times it feels a bit old hack, but that is only because this volume, book eight out of nine, comes so late in the Sherlock Holmes' canon. If this book had come earlier, with some other collection of stories co. Fourth-best of the Sherlock Holmes short story collections! Although he also wrote several novels featuring the world's greatest fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it was especially in his short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle perfected the Holmes formula. "His Last Bow" (published in 1917) is the fourth of the five collections of Holmes short stories. The other collections all featured a dozen stories, but only eight stories make up "His Last Bow". The title is based on the final story of the same name, which portrays the retired Holmes active in bee-keeping, and emerging fro. Master of deduction and analysis This is a collection of eight short stories, first published in October 1917, narrating some of the adventures of detective Sherlock Holmes, the last one entitled "His Last Bow." Sherlock Holmes is amongst the most famous characters ever created in literature, his popularity overshadowing his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to the point that some people are under the impression that Sherlock Holmes in fact existed. The inspiration came from Dr. Joseph Bell, a friend and tutor to Conan Doyle and who shared many personality
These cases, ably read by Frederick Davidson, are rarely found in audio form and show that Conan Doyle knew how to keep Holmes current with the changing political environment. Unlike earlier Sherlockian tales, five of these stories are reminiscences written after Holmes's retirement. From Library Journal From the macabre and murderous "The Devil's Foot" to the strange case of "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," the six stories that comprise His Last Bow seem darker and more disturbing than Conan Doyle's previous Sherlock Holmes works. R
The title story of this collection refers to Holmes' emergence from retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Several of the detective's earlier cases complete the volume, including "Wisteria Lodge," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," and "The Dying Detective."