This volume of Edgar Award winner Leslie S. Klinger's landmark series finds Sherlock Holmes tackling some of the most amazing cases of his career, including: matching wits with a German spy on the eve of WWI, a perilous encounter with the deadly Devil's Foot root, and the theft of the plans for one of her majesty's Secret Weapons. His Last Bow is the latest entry in The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, an exhaustively annotated, nine-volume edition of the Sherlock Holmes tales. It's the most complete collection of Sherlockian scholarship and commentary ever assembled. No Sherlockian bookshelf is complete without it. Each illustrated volume is bursting with scholarly annotations and features a sturdy, smythe-sewn soft cover binding.
Praise for The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library: ...a beautiful piece of work, meeting and exceeding our expectations. This will be a standard for years to come, and every Sherlockian will want to have it. --The Baker Street Journal
As a tool for the researcher or as a bedside browser through the scholarship, serious, satirical, which has been expended in the name of Sherlock Holmes, this truly 'magnum opus' promises to become a new Holmesian milestone. Highly recommended. --Philip Cornell, Passengers' Log, The Sydney Passengers
If you want to master just about everything there is to know about The Great Detective and The Good Doctor, to understand what Holmes meant when he referred to a comet vintage of wine, and to know what discrepancies there are between the English and American editions of the works, plus a thousand other things relating to Holmes, Watson, and the England of the Victorian era, you must have these volumes. --Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop