The Return of Sherlock Holmes Paperback

Three years after the Reichenbach Falls, Holmes walks back into Watson's consulting room, and the cases pick up as though nothing had happened. The collection opens with that return and then moves through a dancing-man cipher, a string of smashed plaster busts, a missing rugby player, a school kidnapping and several blackmail cases handled outside the law. Conan Doyle wrote these after a long gap, and the plotting is tighter for it, with less padding and sharper endings. The 320-page Fingerprint Publishing paperback keeps the stories in their published order, which is the best way to feel the shift in Holmes after his absence. Things that stand out: • The third Holmes collection, 320 pages in paperback • Opens with Holmes's return in The Adventure of the Empty House • Ciphers, country-house thefts and blackmail among the cases • Follows on directly from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes For detective fiction readers, series collectors and school libraries, published by Fingerprint Publishing and available at Boipoka.