The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)

Crowe, Michael J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98291-5_5

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)

Michael J. Crowe²

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Crowe provides an analysis centered on the idea of a Gestalt shift of the twelve Holmes stories anthologized in Return. Included are some of the very best Holmes stories such as “The Adventure of the Empty House,” “The Adventure of the Dancing Men,” “The Adventure of the Priory School,” “The Adventure of Charles August Milverton,” and “The Adventure of the Three Students.”

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Doyle, Holmes, II, 561.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 562.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 568.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 568.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 571–572.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 582.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 583.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 585.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 586.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 587.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 587.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 588.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 589.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 590.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 590.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 953–954.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 608.
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D. Martin Dakin, A Sherlock Holmes Commentary (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1976), 169.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 627.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 629.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 627.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 628.
23.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 643.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 629.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 646–647.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 648.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 662.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 662–663.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 667.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 667.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 667.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 668.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 668.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 668.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 668.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 668.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 671.
38.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 679.
39.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 680.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 679.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 695.
42.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 694.
43.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 696.
44.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 696.
45.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 692.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 705.
47.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 687.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 705.
49.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 705.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 706.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 706.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 696.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings (Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 75.
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An example may illustrate this point. It is well known that Dr. Gregory House, the lead character in the highly successful TV series House, M.D. is based on Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. One of the most famous statements about medical practice made by Gregory House, the genius diagnostician at the center of this medical drama series, is: “Everybody lies.” In other words, he is stressing the point, which many physicians would endorse, that a substantial portion of what patients say to their physicians is not to be trusted. This does not entail that the skillful medical diagnostician should pay no attention to what his or her patients say; rather, it means that the physician needs skillfully to interpret and decode what the patient is reporting. Dr. House also repeatedly listens to what relatives and other associates state about the patient’s problems, but these comments must be decoded. Doyle was illustrating a parallel point: the skillful detective needs sophistication and insight into what clients tell them. On this overall point, see, for example, Henry Jacoby (ed.), House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c. 2009) and also Donna Andrews, “Sex, Lies, and MRIs” in Leah Wilson, House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner (Dallas: BenBella Books, 2007), 221–234.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 712.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 715.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 716.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 722.
59.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 723.
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As in Study in Scarlet, “Black Peter,” “Norwood Builder,” and later in Valley of Fear.
61.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 727.
62.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 729.
63.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 728.
64.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 742.
65.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 742.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 751.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 756.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 762.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 764.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 761.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 772.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 766–767.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 767.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 773.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 775.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 780.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 780.

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Crowe, M.J. (2018). The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905). In: The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98291-5_5

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