This story, a sort of prequel, was set before Holmes had his unfortunate cliff diving accident, so there was no resurrection just yet.

So Conan Doyle brought back his creation for a reunion tour in a novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in The Strand magazine between 1901-1902. But, Conan Doyle was able to get away with his (fictional) homicidal ways for nearly a decade.Ĭonan Doyle never explicitly said why he decided to bring Sherlock Holmes back to life, but he was definitely pressured to do so by both the public and his publishers. People wrote angry letters thousands of people cancelled their subscription to the magazine where the Sherlock Holmes stories were published, The Strand. And this is pretty much what happened after Holmes died. Rowling just got tired of writing about Harry after book five and just killed him off and said 'the end.' All the fans would freak out. See, Sherlock Holmes was a bit like the Harry Potter of his day. The reading public of Victorian England flipped out over the death of Sherlock Holmes. So in a story titled 'The Adventure of the Final Problem,' published 1893, Holmes dies after falling off a cliff while battling his arch-nemesis, the evil Professor Moriarty. But rather than take a break from Holmes, Conan Doyle decided that Holmes had to die. Conan Doyle really wanted to write other books and felt that Sherlock Holmes was taking up way too much of his time. What's up with all this? Well, Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, got sick of his own creation. What is Holmes returning from? Well, The 'Return' part of the title refers to Sherlock Holmes coming back from literary death, inflicted by his own bored author. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Introduction

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