His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes (Wisehouse Classics Edition - with original illustrations)

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle including the titular short story His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (1917). The collections first US edition adjusts the anthologys subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. All editions contain a brief preface by John H. Watson M.D. that assures readers that as of the date of publication (1917) Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.