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His last bow

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir; Owen Dudley Edwards
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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'His Last Bow', the title story of this collection, tells how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of 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 Bruce-Partington Plans', and 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax'. In 'The Dying Detective', Dr. Watson is horrified to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir; Owen Dudley Edwards
ISBN: 0192123157 9780192123152
OCLC Number: 28293961
Description: xlix, 252 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Wisteria Lodge --
The Bruce-Partington plans --
The devil's foot --
The red circle --
The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax --
The dying detective --
His last bow.
Responsibility: Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction by Owen Dudley Edwards.

Abstract:

'His Last Bow', the title story of this collection, tells how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of 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 Bruce-Partington Plans', and 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax'. In 'The Dying Detective', Dr. Watson is horrified to discover Holmes at death's door from a mysterious tropical disease as his friend lays a trap for a murderer.

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