The memories of Sherlock Holmes

This volume is composed of several of the most remarkable cases that Sherlock Holmes has ever solved, cases in which Sherlock’s intelligence and Watson’s mastery as a narrator are both admirable. Sherlock Holmes’ fame grew in such a way that Conan Doyle became unendurable and ended up killing him. In the final problem, sober and moving story, in which in an extraordinary way Holmes’s tenderness is translucent through his proverbial impassivity, we witness his disappearance. But the protests of the readers were so many and so violent that, ten years later, Conan Doyle was forced to resurrect him.

Arthur Conan Doyle