Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze. with the famous •curious incident of the dog in the night-time; The Adventure of the Gloria Scott. where guilt apparently points to a man with a smoking pistol in his hand; and The Adventure of the Crooked Man, the only story in which Holmes ever utters the word elementary The Memoirs close with Holmess deadly encounter with the arch-criminal Moriarty in The Final Problem.The stories in this volume were first published monthly in The Strand magazine (189?-1893). They are accompanied here by many of the original iconic illustrations of Sidney Paget.--back cover