The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the third collection of Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle , published in 1905. It includes stories published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 and 1904, bringing Holmes for the first time into the twentieth century. Doyle had memorably “killed off” Holmes in a struggle with his nemesis Professor Moriarty in the story “The Final Problem,” which had appeared in 1893 (and which is included in the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ). Intense public demand for more Holmes material after that had led to Doyle writing the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles ,