The Return of Sherlock Holmes

collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a work of detective fiction.

It belongs to the genres of detective fiction.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is classified under the category of detective fiction.

The work is a representation of detective fiction.

Key Facts

  • Author: Arthur Conan Doyle[3]
  • Illustrator: Sidney Paget[4]
  • Publisher: George Newnes[5]
  • Genre: detective fiction[6]
  • Follows: The Hound of the Baskervilles[7]
  • Followed by: The Valley of Fear[8], His Last Bow[9]
  • Part of the series: canon of Sherlock Holmes[10], Sherlock Holmes novels[11]
  • Commons category: The Return of Sherlock Holmes[12]
  • Language of work or name: English[13]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[14]
  • Publication date: 1905[15]
  • Has edition or translation: The Return of Sherlock Holmes[16], Q141753672[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The Return of Sherlock Holmes[18]
  • Work available at URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-return-of-sherlock-holmes[19]
  • Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes[20]
  • Copyright status: public domain[21]
  • Form of creative work: short story collection[22]

Why It Matters

The Return of Sherlock Holmes has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Hsarrazin · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Form of creative work → short story collection
    Topic's main category → Category:The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    Followed by → —
    Copyright status → public domain, public domain
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