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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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The Adventure of the Empty House
56:08
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
58:03
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
60:36
The Adventure of the Solitary Bicyclist
49:35
The Adventure of the Priory School Part 1
39:20
The Adventure of the Priory School Part 2
36:54
The Adventure of Black Peter
52:02
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
43:55
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
52:29
The Adventure of The Three Students
42:29
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
54:51
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
49:41
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
54:24
The Adventure of the Second Stain
60:50

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Doyle finally caved in 1903 and brought Holmes back, partly for money and partly because the demand had not let up in a decade. The Return collects thirteen stories from 1903 to 1904, starting with The Adventure of the Empty House, where Holmes walks back into Watson's life disguised as a bookseller and explains that he had faked his death at Reichenbach to evade Moriarty's remaining gang.

The stories in this collection are sometimes called slightly weaker than the early Strand stuff, and there is something to that complaint. Doyle was writing Holmes more out of obligation than inspiration. But the highlights are excellent. The Six Napoleons is a tight detective puzzle. The Norwood Builder has one of the cleverest false-confession setups in the canon. Black Peter is dark and good. The Dancing Men is the cipher story everyone remembers from school. The Solitary Cyclist and Charles Augustus Milverton round out the collection with strong moral edge. If you have read the first two short story books, this one is the necessary follow-up, even if Doyle's heart was only partly in it.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.