The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II

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"eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmes's comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes, in which Conan Doyle resurrects his famous detective after he had killed him off in the last tale in The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). The first story in The Return features the infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped certain death. Along with His Last Bow, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, and The Valley of Fear, this collection also includes a pair of parodies, "The Field Bazaar" and "How Watson Learned the Trick," and two essays about the "private life" of the beloved sleuth"