Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Year: 1859-1930 / Genre:Crime-Mystery His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions)
by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection.
Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published
between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917.
The collection was originally called Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes and
did not contain the actual story His Last Bow, which appeared later,
after the full-length The Valley of Fear was published. However
later editions added it and changed the title. Some recent
complete editions have restored the earlier title.
When the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were published in the USA for
the first time, the publishers believed "The Adventure of the
Cardboard Box" was too scandalous for the American public, since
it dealt with the theme of adultery. As a result, this story was not
published in the USA until many years later, when it was added to
His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon
include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep
the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
