The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Illustrious ClientThe Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
The Adventure of the Three Gables
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
The Problem of Thor Bridge
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final farewell to his hero was published in 1927, and shows a youthful eagerness for experiment. "Mazarin Stone" is told in the third person as was "His Last Bow", though this time the entire A Team is present, even including Mrs Hudson and Billy. Is this in effect a curtain call? Holmes himself finally puts pen to paper on his own account in "Blanched Soldier" because Watson "has deserted me for a wife", and in "Lion's Mane" because he is now retired to a villa on the Sussex Downs.
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