His Last Bow
£1.99Holmes comes out of retirement to catch a German spy on the eve of the First World War, in one of his last recorded adventures.
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Holmes comes out of retirement to catch a German spy on the eve of the First World War, in one of his last recorded adventures.

A man lures his rival into the catacombs during carnival, promising a rare wine, and delivers something far more permanent.

A young Gascon swordsman joins three inseparable musketeers in a plot involving the Queen of France, diamonds, and a very dangerous woman.

An engineer in colonial India is haunted by the ghost of a woman he wronged, who keeps appearing to him in her old rickshaw.

A scientific experiment opens a doorway to a pagan god, and the child born of that encounter grows up to spread horror across Victorian London.

A Geatish hero crosses the sea to kill the monster Grendel, in the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language.

Captain Nemo pilots the submarine Nautilus through the world’s oceans, hunted as a menace and revered as a genius.

Written while dying of cancer to secure his family’s finances, Grant’s memoir of the Civil War is considered one of the finest ever written by a former head of state.

Nietzsche’s prophet descends from the mountains to preach the Übermensch and the death of God, in dense, poetic parables.

Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, learns the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.

Cheated of his inheritance and kidnapped onto a ship bound for slavery, young David Balfour fights his way home across the Scottish Highlands.

Dickens’ most autobiographical novel follows David from a difficult childhood through hardship, friendship, and eventual success.

Vasari’s gossipy, opinionated biographies of Italian Renaissance artists invented art history and art criticism in the same stroke, starting with Cimabue and Giotto.

Shipwrecked and alone for decades, Robinson Crusoe rebuilds civilisation from scratch on a desert island.

A domesticated dog is stolen and sold into the brutal world of Yukon sled-dog teams, where he rediscovers his wild ancestry.

Two bachelors invent fictional alter egos to escape social obligations, until their double lives collide in Wilde’s brightest comedy.