Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
The Adventure of the Empty House 

In ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’, Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a 3-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the ‘second most dangerous man in London’ who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise. From the 1905 collection ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes’.