His Last Bow [Paperback]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 8, 2007

The greatest detective of them all is back...'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe'. A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for Sherlock Holmes' penetrating mind. For even in the gloom, Holmes sees and observes everything...

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About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, son of Charles Altamount Doyle and Mary (Foley) Doyle, and one of seven children who survived to adulthood. Rejecting his family's strict Catholicism and, cut off from their patronage, he decided to set up his own practice in Southsea in 1882. After the death of his first wife, Louise Hawkins, he went on to marry Jean Leckie in 1907 and they had two sons and a daughter, living very happily together on their estate in Sussex, Windlesham, until Conan Doyle's death in 1930.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Headline Review (February 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755334442
• ISBN-13: 978-0755334445
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,120,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 5, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes) (Paperback)

Last? No more? Bee-keeping? Humph. Anyway, His Last Bow is a story with Holmes involved in some activity of a more patriotic nature, leading up to World War One, which is of course the era that this was written in. There are several more cases here collected

The Bruce-Partington plans is a personal favorite, as again we encounter Sherlock's smarter brother, Mycroft.

His Last Bow : 1 The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 2 The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 3 The Adventure of the Red Circle - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 4 The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 5 The Adventure of the Dying Detective - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 6 The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 7 The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow : 8 His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, December 20, 2008

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R. Gandy "Gandy Man" (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes) (Paperback)

I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan and have read all of his stories. This book doesn't particularly add to the Holmes legacy, but it was still good to read for us who are permanent fans of Sherlock Holmes.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The particularly analytical ability Sherlock Holmes has, March 16, 2009

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Guang Wu (China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes) (Paperback)

I admire the particularly analytical ability Sherlock Holmes has, and often think if I can learn it. However, this time, after reading these stories so many times, I feel that I might not need to learn it to improve myself because this particularly analytical ability is used to solve the problems in the past, but I need the ability to solve my problems for my future.