Sherlock Holmes, the eagleeyed detective and reasoner, is back for a fourth time in His Last Bow. This collection features Holmes in eight more dumbfounding cases where he is forced to stretch his ingenuity to the limits to arrive at a solution.Holmes is said to still be in good health barring a touch of rheumatism, according to Watsons preface; but he has retired from being a detective and now lives on a farm and has taken up beekeeping as a hobby.His older brother Mycroft makes a reappearance in the mystifying case of the "BrucePartington Plans," and Watson is alarmed when Holmes falls fatally ill in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective." It concludes with "His Last Bow," a finale set during the First World War, featuring Holmes and Watson trying to outwit a German spy.