The
Return of
Sherlock
Holmes
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
The
Return of
Sherlock
Holmes
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
| The stories comprising The Return of Sherlock Holmes
were
published in Collier's Magazine and The Strand Magazine individually from
September 1903 through December 1904. Since his literary death, the
public had clamored for the return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur
had argued strongly that The Hound of the Baskervilles was a only
a recollection and that Holmes was not only "merely dead", but was
"most
sincerely dead". It has been suggested that it was a rather princely
offer from America, along with the urgings of his family that caused him
to take up the pen once more and write these adventures. Sherlock
Holmes returned and the public was thrilled.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was first published in book form in 1905 by McClure, Phillips in New York (First US Edition, February, 1905) and Morang & Co, Canada (First Canadian Edition, February, 1905... Canadian publication of the First American Edition) and by George Newnes of London (First UK Edition, March 7, 1905). The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and is Number Eleven in Otto Penzler's 100 Indespensibles in Sherlock Holmes. |
The
Return of Sherlock Holmes
McClure,
Phillips, New York, February, 1905
First
US Edition
The
Return of Sherlock Holmes
George
Newnes, London, March 7, 1905
First
UK Edition
