The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903–1904, by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Maga
First edition (US)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from Augu
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
…1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) It was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles, set before Holmes's "death", in 1901–1902, Doyle had come under intense pressure to revive the character. The first story, set in 1894, has Holmes…
The cover of the first edition
Frontispiece to The Hound of the Baskervilles first edition: "The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes" (Watson investigates the hut where a mysterious figure is living secretly on the moor–only to discover it is Sherlock Holmes, who was supposedly back in London (Chapters 11 and 12))
Baskerville Hall, formally Clyro Court, may have inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles
The ruins of Fowelscombe House, a possible model for Baskerville Hall