His Last Bow (Oxford World's Classics)

Free Download His Last Bow (Oxford World's Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Trish Ferguson
English | 10 July 2025 | ISBN: 0198864345, 9780192609946 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1 MB
'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.'
Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe. First published as a collection in 1917, against the backdrop of the First World War, the volume covers tales that deviate from the pattern of earlier Sherlock adventures which focus on individual culpability and the comfort of a simplistic restoration of order. The titular story in this collection was influenced by Doyle's personal experience of the war, and in these tales the solutions to seemingly small-scale, local, mysteries uncover crimes concerning national security, or even expose the covert evil actions of organizations and powerful dictators.