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His Last Bow
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- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1917
- Editions
- 583
- Subjects
- short stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Classic Literature, English Detective and mystery stories, Mystery
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Key facts
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Illustrator
- Richard Gutschmidt
- Cover artist
- Joseph van Abbé
- Language
- English
- Series
- Sherlock Holmes
- Genre
- Detective fiction
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Publication date
- 22 October 1917
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardcover)
- Preceded by
- The Valley of Fear
- Followed by
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- Text
- His Last Bow at Wikisource
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Encyclopedic overview
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a 1917 collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that as of the date of publication, Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “His Last Bow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.