The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes collects thirteen cases from The Strand Magazine of 1903 and 1904, which brought the detective back a decade after Arthur Conan Doyle sent him over the Reichenbach Falls. The first story springs a trap with a wax bust in a Baker Street window; then come a cipher of stick figures and plaster Napoleons smashed across London. This Holmes is readier to break the law: he burgles a blackmailer's house and frees a killer on his own judgement. The Six Napoleons leans on period stereotypes of Italians.

Stories run from about 9,100 syllables for Charles Augustus Milverton to 15,700 for The Priory School; begin with The Empty House, at 11,600. Holmes and Watson stay on tôi and anh, while Lestrade says ông to Holmes and gets anh back. The student Gilchrist is em to his lecturer, and cậu chủ to an old servant he calls bác. Trapped, Colonel Moran spits tao and mày at a Holmes who mockingly says ngài.