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by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1859–1930
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of 13 stories published in 1905. After Holmes's apparent death in 1893's "The Final Problem," Doyle faced intense pressure to revive his famous detective. This collection marks Holmes's dramatic return to London, explaining his mysterious absence from 1891 to 1894. The stories follow Holmes and Watson through new cases involving cryptic codes, missing persons, and dangerous criminals across Victorian England.
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- Read time
- 509 min
- Words
- 112,028
- Chapters
- 22
- Paragraphs
- 2,575
- Price
- Free
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
“Feeling sure that the window had been open at the time of the tragedy, I conceived that there might have been a third person in the affair, who stood outside this opening and fired through it.
„In der Gewissheit, dass das Fenster zur Zeit des Verbrechens offen gewesen war, kam ich auf die Idee, dass eine dritte Person im Spiel sein könnte, die außerhalb dieser Öffnung stand und durch sie hindurch schoss.
Any shot directed at this person might hit the sash.
Jeder Schuss, der auf diese Person gerichtet war, könnte den Fensterflügel treffen.
I looked, and there, sure enough, was the bullet mark!”
Ich sah nach, und da war, wie zu erwarten, die Kugelspur!“
About the author
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in Crowborough in 1930.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #108
- Licence
- Public domain worldwide
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