{"product_id":"the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-9780198856702","title":"The Return of Sherlock Holmes","description":"Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise \u003cem\u003eThe Return of Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the outcry that supposedly followed Holmes' death was mostly apocryphal (the claim that readers wore black armbands in mourning has been frequently cited but never actually proved), by 1893 there was a substantial readership for Holmes' two series of adventures published in the \u003cem\u003eStrand Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and two earlier novels. Doyle returned to Holmes in 1901-2 with \u003cem\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel set before the events of 'The Final Problem'; the commercial success of the serialisation in the \u003cem\u003eStrand\u003c\/em\u003e led Doyle to consider reviving the Holmes stories on a longer-term basis. Accordingly, in 1903 Doyle was contracted by the American magazine \u003cem\u003eCollier's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e to supply six more Holmes stories; the agreement was extended to six more, with a final extension for a thirteenth story ('The Second Stain') that Doyle (mistakenly) believed to be the closing episode of the Holmes adventures. These thirteen tales make up this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur Conan Doyle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Pittard (Editor) is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth and author of \u003cem\u003ePurity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarryl Jones (General Editor) is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's \u003cem\u003eCollected Ghost Stories\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), Arthur Conan Doyle's \u003cem\u003eGothic Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and H. G. Wells's \u003cem\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eThe Island of Doctor Moreau\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), as well as \u003cem\u003eHorror: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554614939922,"sku":"9780198856702","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4e23ee9-fe2a-4d17-a1f3-4bb1d6f87eee.jpg?v=1731721869","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-9780198856702","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}