His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes

Featured in His Last Bow, there is a collection of seven short stories, about Sherlock Holmes and his investigative prowess set in the First World War and first published between 1908 and 1917. They were published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a collection in 1917. These stories include the tales of a dead woman and her two "mad" brothers, a woman who receives a package with severed ears inside, and a set of missing submarine plans. The six stories appeared independently in the monthly magazine Strand from September 1908 to December 1913, while the 7th appeared at the time of the publication of the book in 1917, under the title His Last Bow, subtitled Some Memories of Sherlock Holmes.