Sherlock Holmes  His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes  His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Simon Hester

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/16/2022


Synopsis

Conan Doyle had attempted to bring his Sherlock Holmes stories to a fitting close in 1893 with “The Final Problem” but public outrage both persuaded him to resurrect his famous detective.It was therefore not through a dramatic struggle with the evil Professor Moriarty atop an Alpine waterfall that Holmes was to leave the literary world, but instead he was to bow out gracefully and patriotically in the series of stories published in 1917 under the title “His Last Bow”.These short stories are as full as ever of the author’s imaginative skill in providing puzzles and conundrums for his creation. Within these tales Holmes at last meets an official detective who comes a little closer to employing his acute methods of reasoning. There is a story of crazed jealousy which produces a grisly souvenir of the crime. Holmes and Watson encounter in the streets of London a Mafia like organisation intent on revenge and in the wilds of Cornwall revenge of a different kind in connection with an horrific and macabre murder.The final story places Holmes in the very specific time frame of the First World War, persuaded out of retirement and calling once again upon his old and trusted friend Watson, to capture an enemy spy.
Head Stories Audio presents "His Final Bow" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

About Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his creation of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. In addition to being considered a father of detective fiction, he also wrote a series of science-fiction adventures starring the brilliant, daring, and comical Professor Challenger.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on August 23, 2024

The Penultimate Peril. The second last collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; not exactly the best, but a fairly good one. After sooo many stories it’s increasingly hard to make a difference between them and make them stand out individually, but at least this collection has several that succeed at......more

Goodreads review by Werner on July 11, 2020

My Goodreads friend Steve Haywood and I agreed, early this year, to read this collection together this month as a buddy read. He wanted to do a story collection; and I suggested this one, since I knew it was the only remaining book in the Holmes canon that I hadn't officially read. So, on turning th......more