HIS LAST BOW

The Strand Magazine from December 1911 with The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Part 1. The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles

Part 2. The Tiger of San Pedro

First published in the Collier’s Weekly Magazine, Aug. 1908, with 6 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, and in the Strand Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 1908, with 10 illustrations by Arthur Twidle.

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

First published in the Strand Magazine, Jan. 1893, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget. The story was not included in the first English edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, thought in the first American edition by Harper in 1894.

The Adventure of the Red Circle

First published in the Strand Magazine, Mar. - Apr. 1911, with 3 illustrations by H. M. Brock and 1 by Joseph Simpson, and in the American edition of the Strand Magazine, Apr. - May 1911, illustrated as above.

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1908, with 6 illustrations by Arthur Twidle, and in the Collier’s Weekly Magazine, Dec. 1908, with 5 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele.

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

First published in Collier’s Weekly Magazine, Nov. 1913, with 3 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, and in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1913, with 4 illustrations by Sidney Paget's brother, Walter Paget.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1911, with 5 illustrations by Alec Ball, and in the American Magazine, Dec. 1911, with 5 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele.

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1910, with 7 illustrations by Gilbert Halliday, and in the American edition of Strand Magazine in Jan. - Feb. 1911 with 8 illustrations by Gilbert Halliday (one additional illustration was required due the two-part publication).

His Last Bow

First published in the Strand Magazine, Sept. 1917, with 3 illustrations by A. Gilbert, and in the Collier’s Weekly Magazine, Sept. 1917, with 5 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele.

The whole collection was first published in Oct. 1917 by John Murray in an edition of 10,684 copies. First American edition published by the G. H. Doran Co. in New York also in Oct. 1917.

PREFACE

THE friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture. During this period of rest he has refused the most princely offers to take up various cases, having determined that his retirement was a permanent one. The approach of the German war caused him, however, to lay his remarkable combination of intellectual and practical activity at the disposal of the government, with historical results which are recounted in His Last Bow. Several previous experiences which have lain long in my portfolio have been added to His Last Bow so as to complete the volume.

JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.