Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” (1893) is the second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and follows “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. Featuring some of Holmes and Watson’s greatest adventures, it contains such suspense-filled stories as “The Adventure of the Yellow Face, ” and “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Intended to be the last collection of Holmes stories, it also includes the famous story The Final Problem, in which Holmes matches wits with Professor Moriarty and engages him in a fight to the death in the Swiss Alps.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his creation of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. In addition to being considered a father of detective fiction, he also wrote a series of science-fiction adventures starring the brilliant, daring, and comical Professor Challenger.