His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics) - Tapa blanda

Dr Watson once again opens his portfolio to reveal eight strange cases solved by the keen intellect of the master detective. They range from murder and kidnapping to theft and treachery - though on one occasion it is Holmes and Watson who commit the crime of burglery. And finally, when Britain is on the eve of the Great War, Holmes comes out of retirement, leaving his books and his bees. He changes the course of history and takes His Last Bow ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activities and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet of 'the good giant'. His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly decoyed his creator from his other work.