His Last Bow

His Last Bow, the title story in this collection, features Sherlock Holmes coming out of retirement at the request of the Prime Minister to assist in countering a German agent ahead of World War I. The collection also includes several of Holmes’s earlier adventures, such as Wisteria Lodge, The Bruce-Partington Plans, and The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, along with The Dying Detective, where Holmes faces a deadly tropical illness while setting a trap for a murderer.