The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is a 1927 fiction book written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The last of it: twelve stories Arthur Conan Doyle published in 1927, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes cases. An illustrious client with a secret to protect, a soldier whose skin has gone white, a vanished suitor at Thor Bridge, a professor behaving strangely at night. A few are narrated by Holmes himself rather than Watson, a late change of angle from Doyle. The detective is older here, semi-retired to his Sussex bees, but the method holds: observe closely, reason from small facts, and explain it all at the end.
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What is The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes about?
The last of it: twelve stories Arthur Conan Doyle published in 1927, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes cases. An illustrious client with a secret to protect, a soldier whose skin has gone white, a vanished suitor at Thor Bridge, a professor behaving strangely at night. A few are narrated by Holmes himself rather than Watson, a late change of angle from Doyle. The detective is older here, semi-retired to his Sussex bees, but the method holds: observe closely, reason from small facts, and explain it all at the end.
When was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes published?
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1927.
Who made The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes?
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles remains the essential screen Holmes, the moor-and-fog case that fixed the character's image. Sherlock Holmes carries the deductions into a series with room to breathe. For a hands-on version, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2007) puts you in the reasoning chair. All keep Arthur Conan Doyle's pleasure in a closely watched clue.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, on film and in games
The Case-Book closes out Doyle's Holmes stories, and one of the detective's most famous cases is The Hound of the Baskervilles. These film and game versions all take on that moor-bound mystery, the legend of a spectral dog and the science Holmes uses to explain it away, spanning decades of adaptation.
Classic Sherlock Holmes movies and TV
Doyle's final collection shows an older Holmes still working by observation and deduction. These classic movies and the long-running TV series bring that method to the screen, from period-faithful takes to a wittier modern Holmes, all built on the same close reading of small clues.
Fresh takes on the Holmes legend
By The Case-Book, Doyle was tired of Holmes and even let the detective narrate a few cases himself. These takes play with the legend from new angles, a semi-retired Holmes, a secret daughter, a young sleuth and a late-career twist, for readers curious where the character can still go.