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A missing diamond, a hidden face, a dangerous charm: what does an older Holmes see that everyone else misses?
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle gathers twelve separate mysteries with marriages, fortunes and family secrets at stake. In The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, Sir James Damery brings a request from someone who must remain unnamed. Meanwhile, the charming Baron Adelbert Gruner plans to marry a rich young woman.
Dr John Watson tells most of these cases with familiar warmth, but Holmes also speaks for himself. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone turns on a stolen yellow diamond; The Adventure of the Three Garridebs offers a curious promise of wealth. In The Adventure of the Lion's Mane, Holmes is retired beside the Sussex sea.
What you’ll discover
- An older, more tolerant Holmes Meet a detective whose sharp eye remains, even as weariness and mercy enter his work.
- Secrets behind a veil Encounter Eugenia Ronder, a hidden face and a terrible secret she now wishes to tell.
- A scholar after dark Follow the alarm surrounding Professor Presbury, whose strange habits unsettle both secretary and dog.
- Money with dangerous strings Explore cases where fortunes, jealousy and private grievances give people reasons to hide the truth.
- Two ways of seeing Enjoy Watson's affectionate account, then hear Holmes tell cases in his own words.
Who will love it
For readers who love short, self-contained mysteries and want to see Holmes in his last years. It also rewards anyone who knows the earlier tales and enjoys Holmes and Watson investigating secrets, stolen jewels and strange household behavior.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A villain's charm and a hidden soldier
- Jewels, schemers and a suspicious mother
- Strange legacies and a bridge with a bullet
- Retirement, regret and a buried grievance
- Money, jealousy and the cost of secrets
- How the stories are told and arranged
Who’s who
- Sherlock HolmesThe consulting detective of Baker Street, whose sharp eye for small facts solves cases that baffle the police, and who is now older and more tolerant.
- Dr John WatsonHolmes's friend and chronicler, a doctor who tells most of the stories and admires his companion while often struggling to keep up.
- Baron Adelbert GrunerA charming Austrian with a dark past, who wants to marry a rich young woman and ignores every warning about his character.
- Kitty WinterA woman who has suffered at the baron's hands and wants the truth about him to be known.
- Neil GibsonA rich, overbearing American gold king who hires Holmes to save the governess accused in his wife's death.
- Eugenia RonderA veiled lodger who has lived with a terrible secret and now wishes to tell it.
- Professor PresburyA respected scholar of Camford whose odd night-time habits alarm his secretary and set his own dog against him.
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Das Fallbuch von Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1927
Missing diamonds, hidden faces and strange night-time habits draw Holmes into cases where secrets threaten lives.
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the last of the Holmes books. It gathers twelve stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote for The Strand Magazine between 1921 and 1927, and they came out together as a volume in 1927.
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A villain's charm and a hidden soldier
The collection opens with The Adventure of the Illustrious Client. Sir James Damery comes to Baker Street on behalf of a very powerful person who must stay unnamed. The task is to stop a young woman, Violet de Merville, from marrying Baron Adelbert Gruner. Gruner is an Austrian with a charming manner and a dark reputation, and Violet will not hear a word against him.
Holmes sets out to find evidence that might change her mind. He studies the baron's past and looks for people who have been hurt by him. One of them is a woman named Kitty Winter, whose bitterness gives the case its sharpest edge. The story is among the darkest in the whole series, and Watson is made to feel the danger as well. It also brings in Holmes's odd habit of collecting knowledge, here about china, which proves useful.
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What is The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes about?
It is a collection of twelve short detective stories, published in 1927. Holmes and Watson look into blackmail, stolen jewels, odd household behavior, a death near a bridge and other puzzles, mostly in England.
Is The Case-Book the last Sherlock Holmes book?
Yes. It is the fifth and last collection of Holmes short stories, and it came out in 1927. Most of the stories first appeared in The Strand Magazine between 1921 and 1927.
Which stories are told by Holmes himself?
Two of them. The Blanched Soldier and The Lion's Mane are written in Holmes's own voice, as he says he wants to try his hand at telling a case. Another, The Mazarin Stone, is told in the third person.
The author
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · British detective novelist
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859. He practised medicine in England and wrote novels, short stories and histories. His Sherlock Holmes stories began with A Study in Scarlet in 1887. He also wrote The Lost World in 1912. He died in Crowborough, England, in 1930.
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