As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases, and was myself personally engaged in many of them, it may be imagined that it is no easy task to know which I should select to lay before the public. Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most intricate and extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part.
Watson) From the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive Mr. You remember that terrible murderer, Bert Stevens, who wanted us to get him off in '87? Was there ever a more mild-mannered, Sunday-school young man? (Sherlock Holmes) That is a dangerous argument, my dear Watson. Watson) Surely, the man's appearance would go far with any jury? Watson) Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of Ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives. Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night. (Sherlock Holmes) My collection of M's is a fine one. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual-that's to say, you handled it fairly well. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. (Sherlock Holmes) I think you want a little unofficial help. The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891–94, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem.
(New York) then on Maby Georges Newnes, Ltd. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3)
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