**SPOILERS OVER**BOTTOM LINE: An excellent story and a must read for anyone who finishes The Final Problem.Īfter growing up on Sherlock Holmes movies, Sherlock Holmes parodies, Sherlock Holmes-inspired characters and plots, and all manner of Sherlock Holmes culture references, I figured I owed it to myself to actually read a real, live Sherlock Holmes book. Clearly the brilliant Sherlock has returned. Holmes had no qualms about insulting him and making sure he understood that he was now the captured prey. It must have been salt in the wound to someone so proud of his ability to hunt. Sherlock compares Colonel Moran (to his face) to the very tigers he hunted for so many years. He is an admired military man with a reputation as an skilled hunter. **SPOILERS**Colonel Moran is Sherlock’s pursuer in this novella. The clever Holmes devises a plan to not only catch his enemies, but also to solve an open case for the police at the same time. Some of Moriarty’s agents are trying to find and kill him and they’ll stop at nothing to do so. The story that follows explains Sherlock’s absence over the past couples years and his current predicament. Watson is shocked to discover he’s actually alive and well! He was so shocked in fact he faints for the first and only time in his life. Three years after Sherlock’s death at the hands of Moriarty, Dr. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. This legendary collection, which Arthur Conan Doyle intended to bring a fitting end to the Sherlock Holmes saga, also includes “The Musgrave Ritual,” “The Reigate Puzzle,” “The Crooked Man,” and “The Resident Patient.” Each of these eleven stories is now recognized as a masterpiece of crime fiction, and a clear indication that the peerless sleuth was not yet ready to leave the stage for good. Watson tells the world what no one wants to hear: Holmes and his archenemy have plunged to their deaths together, locked in mortal combat. And, most notoriously, criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty makes his first appearance in “The Final Problem,” a story that begins with the discovery of a secret criminal organization overtaking England, and ends on a cliff overlooking the Reichenbach Falls. In “The Greek Interpreter,” Holmes and his brilliant older brother, Mycroft, team up to put an end to a diabolical extortion scheme. “Silver Blaze,” a case that famously hinges on the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time,” finds the detective employing his singular imagination to locate a missing racehorse. These stories, originally published in the Strand Magazine, follow Holmes from the astonishing heights of his deductive powers to the bottom of a treacherous gorge in Switzerland. The immortal Sherlock Holmes solves eleven unforgettable mysteries
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