The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
English • Public Domain • Free to stream • Includes The Final Problem
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1894, is the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It contains eleven stories, including Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stockbroker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squire, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter — and most famously, The Final Problem. In that last story, Holmes encounters Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, and the two men fall together from the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland on 4 May 1891. Conan Doyle believed he was killing Holmes for good; twenty thousand readers immediately cancelled their Strand Magazine subscriptions.
The Memoirs also introduces Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brilliantly indolent elder brother, and reveals more of Holmes's origins and methods than any previous collection. The Greek Interpreter is the first story in which Holmes and Watson encounter Mycroft, and the Musgrave Ritual takes us back to Holmes's earliest case as a consulting detective. These stories deepen the mythology of the world's most famous detective in ways that still resonate more than 130 years later.
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About the book: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with an 1894 date. It was published in the UK by G. Newnes Ltd., and in the US by Harper & Brothers in February 1894. It was the second collection featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, following The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Like the first, it was illustrated by Sidney Paget.
The stories were originally published in The Strand Magazine from December 1892 to December 1893. In the United States, the stories were first published in Harper's Weekly, except for "The Final Problem", which appeared in McClure's Magazine. The first London edition in 1894 did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", although all twelve stories had appeared in The Strand Magazine. In Britain, the story was apparently removed at Doyle's request as it included adultery and so was unsuitable for younger readers.
Doyle determined that these would be the last Holmes stories, and intended to kill off the character in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes novel in 1901 to 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles, set before "The Final Problem". The next year a new series, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, begins with the aftermath of "The Final Problem", in which it is revealed that Holmes actually survived.
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