Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
His Last Bow 

During the dark days of World War I, a young British soldier asked Arthur Conan Doyle what Sherlock Holmes was doing to assist in the war effort. That encounter reputedly inspired the story "His Last Bow, " in which the celebrated detective is drawn from his retirement to reunite with the ever-faithful Dr. Watson for their final challenge, unmasking a German spy.Seven additional short stories, originally published in The Strand Magazine, recount episodes leading up to the master sleuth’s grand finale. "The Bruce-Partington Plans, " also involves espionage, this time in an earlier setting and concerning the recovery of purloined plans for building a submarine. Other mysteries find Watson and Holmes pursuing a deposed dictator, unraveling a crime of passion, tracking down a foreign crime syndicate, outwitting a poisoner, investigating an heiress’s disappearance, and interrupting their vacation in Cornwall to solve a devilish case of murder and madness.