His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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His Last Bow
Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales published individually between 1908 and 1917. It also contains one early story, 1892's "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," which, with its themes of adultery, was previously considered too "scandalous" for American audiences.

Here, Holmes must contend with mysterious bearded men, stolen secret submarine plans, a missing lady aristocrat, and his own near-fatal illness. The stories contained in His Last Bow are "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," "The Adventure of the Red Circle," "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," and "His Last Bow."

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


Reviews

The Penultimate Peril. The second last collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; not exactly the best, but a fairly good one. After sooo many stories it’s increasingly hard to make a difference between them and make them stand out individually, but at least this collection has several that succeed at......more

Goodreads review by Ahmad

His Last Bow: 8 Stories (Sherlock Holmes, #8), Arthur Conan Doyle Contents: Preface by John H. Watson, M.D. (1917), The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1908), The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1892), The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911), The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908), The Adventure o......more