The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

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<p><i>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes</i>, published in 1927, collects the final set of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/sherlock-holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> stories authored by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>. All of the included stories appeared previously in <i>The Strand Magazine</i> between October 1921 and April 1927.</p> <p>As usual, the mysteries generally purport to be accounts written by Holmes’s friend <abbr>Dr.</abbr> John Watson. Uniquely, however, three stories in the <i>Casebook</i> are presented from alternative points of view: “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” is narrated in the third person, since it was adapted from a stage play in which Watson hardly appeared; and “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” and “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” are both narrated by Holmes himself, the latter being set after his retirement as a detective.</p>