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  • Published: 17 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141034362
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.00

The Return Of Sherlock Holmes

Pocket Penguin Classics





Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous individual with an air gun, the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

And so it is that Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man who reveals the truth behind the fateful final conflict between Holmes and Moriarty, and paves the way for the extraordinary return of the world's greatest sleuth in thirteen new tales of mystery and deduction ...

  • Published: 17 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141034362
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.00

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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