The Adventure of the Dying Detective

A short Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1913, in which Dr. Watson is summoned to find the detective gravely and mysteriously ill after a case near the Thames, refusing treatment and forbidding Watson to come near him.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic mystery and detective stories›Detective novels and casebooks›Sherlock Holmes and his rivals, 1887 to 1913

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