In the first story, 'The Adventure of the Empty House', Sherlock reappears in London and meets his friend to tell him how he had pushed Moriarty off the ledge in Switzerland, and then escaped fatal attacks at the hands of Moriarty's still loyal henchmen. He had been travelling around the world with help from his brother Mycroft to evade death at home. Watson accompanies Sherlock to cleverly thwart another attempt at his life, and also solve a murder Watson had helped in investigating earlier. The other stories continue ...
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In the first story, 'The Adventure of the Empty House', Sherlock reappears in London and meets his friend to tell him how he had pushed Moriarty off the ledge in Switzerland, and then escaped fatal attacks at the hands of Moriarty's still loyal henchmen. He had been travelling around the world with help from his brother Mycroft to evade death at home. Watson accompanies Sherlock to cleverly thwart another attempt at his life, and also solve a murder Watson had helped in investigating earlier. The other stories continue their crime-solving exploits - A husband feels threatened by the wife's' past life when they start receiving strange messages from the United States in 'The Dancing Men' and a murder reveals an unknown guest in the house of a Professor in 'The Golden Pince-Nez'.
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Dr. John Watson resumes his records of his friend's adventures with the adventure of the Empty House. This story alone contains several rich nuggets. The understatement of the death of Watson's wife, the introduction of the only character in Holmes lore that was a true threat on the scale of Prof. Moriarty, and the "face in the window" that would re-appear in a later adventure as well as in one of the Basil Rathbone films.
Rosie1954
Jul 11, 2007
The World's Greatest Sleuth Returns
The return of the world's greatest (fictional) Detective.... If you are already familiar with Holmes brilliant powers of deduction, his keen sense of observation, his mastery at being the reknown infamous sleuth, then, well, you will want to read more. Such as the additional mysteries in this volume such as "The missimg three-quarter", "The Empty House" and more (13 stories in all).
If you have not made the acquaintance of this amazing detective, you may want to start with the well known "The Hounds of the Baskerviles" before plunging into this volume.
Any story/mystery with Holmes and Dr. Watson are worth reading and re-reading....
