His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

Seven late cases and the title story, in which Holmes spends two years in America growing a goatee to catch a German spy on the eve of the war. Doyle wrote the last of these while his own son was at the front. The east wind speech at the end is the closest he ever came to saying goodbye to the ch...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish writer and physician born in Edinburgh. He practised medicine in Southsea while writing his first Sherlock Holmes stories and served as a volunteer doctor in the Boer War. His works include A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Ho...