Sherlock Holmes, the eagle-eyed 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 Watson's 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 “Bruce-Partington 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.