The Adventure of the Dancing Men, from 1903, is one of 13 tales in
The Return of Sherlock Holmes series.
He would never write anything finer than his Sherlock Holmes stories, and at Undershaw, he eventually yielded to public pressure and resuscitated his dead hero with "The Adventure of the Empty House" and the stories that would be published in the 1905 volume
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote The Great Boer War at Undershaw after volunteering as a doctor and serving several months in Africa in 1900.
10 Who tooK on the role of Dr Watson in the 1986 series
The Return of SherlocK Holmes? 11 Which Channel Five documentary follows patients undergoing brain surgery at Liverpool's Walton Centre?
I knew Von Herder, the blind German mechanic, who constructed it to the order of the late Professor Moriarty." (from
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
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Two years later Conan Doyle published 'The Adventure of the Empty House' in which, by public demand, he resurrected the great detective in the collection of short stories,
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, equipping him with a 'knowledge of baritsu' to use against Moriarty.
In 1902, Conan Doyle wrote the classic Holmes story The Hound Of The Baskervilles at Undershaw, and two years later, he resurrected the fictional detective there in
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes," which has no extras (and frankly doesn't need them), is a five-volume set containing "The Empty House," "The Abbey Grange," "The Second Stain," "The Six Napoleons," "The Priory School," "Wisteria Lodge," "The Devil's Foot," "Silver Blaze," "The Bruce Partington Plans," "The Musgrave Ritual," and "The Man with the Twisted Lip."
Since then he has starred in a wide variety of productions, including Charleys's Aunt, Noises Off, Dial M for Murder, She Stoops to Conquer, How the Other Half Loves and played Watson to Michael Cashman's Holmes in
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Short stories about Holmes began to appear regularly in the Strand Magazine in 1891 and later made up several collections, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894),
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927).