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With Moran in jail Holmes can now safely return to London and resume his detective business.

He and Watson reunite to take down a would-be assassin of Holmes, and murderer of Ronald Adair, Colonel Moran. Holmes dramatically returns from the dead, or from being presumed dead. No one in the area at the time heard a shot.įamous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.The Return of Sherlock Holmes Summary The Adventure of the Empty House Adair was killed with a soft-nosed revolver bullet to the head. The only other way out was the open window, and there was a 20-foot (about 6 m) drop below it onto a flower bed, which now shows no sign of being disturbed. It seems odd that Ronald's door was locked from the inside. The motive does not appear to be robbery as nothing has been stolen, and it seems that Adair had not an enemy in the world. It does, however, come out that he won as much as £420 in partnership with Colonel Sebastian Moran. Adair liked playing whist and regularly did so at several clubs, but never for great sums of money. He was in his sitting room, working on accounts of some kind, as indicated by the papers and money found by police. On the night of March 30, an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder takes place in London: the Park Lane Mystery, the killing of the Honourable Ronald Adair, son of the Earl of Maynooth, a colonial governor in Australia. The story takes place in 1894, three years after the death of Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.ĭoyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.

This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty.

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.