His Last Bow is a crucial and unusual collection from the illustrious career of Sherlock Holmes, laced as they are with rare displays of the art of detection together with biographical controversies and paradoxical mysteries that beg the question of who precisely recorded these exploits of the Master of 221b Baker Street? . You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: His Last Bow Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Release Date: October, 2000 [EBook #2350] Last updated: July 25, 2019 Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS LAST BOW *** Produced by … . . The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). . First edition dustjacket image courtesy of Lucius Books Ltd. "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", His Last Bow. . What are you doing? The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. Altamont is actually Sherlock Holmes in disguise, and the chauffeur who brought him is Dr. Watson. . They are agents of Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Emperor of Germany (the Kaiser) and King of Prussia. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). Holmes' patriotic passage has been widely quoted, and was later used in the final scene of the Basil Rathbone film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), loosely based on "His Last Bow", though set during World War II. [3] It was included in the short story collection His Last Bow,[3] which was published in the UK and the US in October 1917.[4]. . . Peter Brown wrote "Anyone having any knowledge or experience of actual intelligence work could not help a gasp of horror at what Sherlock Holmes is doing in 'His Last Bow'. On the eve of the First World War, the German agent Von Bork is getting ready to leave England with his vast collection of intelligence, gathered over a four-year period. [9] All the stories in the collection were adapted as episodes of the radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2005–2016). The story is continued in Robert Ryan's 2015 novel A Study in Murder, the third in his "Dr Watson" detective series, in which Von Bork torments Dr Watson, now a prisoner of war in Germany, and arranges for him to be exchanged for Sherlock Holmes so that he can exact his revenge. [8] His Last Bow was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 as part of the BBC Sherlock Holmes 1989–1998 radio series. Arthur Conan Doyle. This episode is an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : His Last Bow (1917). But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Six of the stories were published in The Strand Magazine between September 1908 and December 1913. His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, set before the story, was published later. Altamont disparages Von Bork's safe, but Von Bork proudly says that its construction and the double combination lock make it impenetrable. [9], "His Last Bow" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by Bert Coules as part of the 1989–1998 radio series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. . His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. [10], In 2015, the story was adapted as an episode of The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre, with John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Watson.[11]. . 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