The last thing is Holmes

The cycle about Sherlock Holmes became the most famous work of Sir Arthur Conan-Dol (1859-1930), and his hero in the ranking of world famous characters confidently holds first place. Conan Doyle came up with how to reliably “plant” the reader on his stories. “It always seemed to me,” he wrote, “that ordinary publications with a continuation are more likely to interfere than help the magazine, since sooner or later the reader misses the number and loses all further interest. It is quite obvious that a permanent hero would be an ideal compromise, but each issue should have a finished story ... In my opinion, I first understood this, and the magazine “Stand Magazin "was the first to do it”. The famous writer has repeatedly tried to end his hero. “I"m thinking,” he wrote, “to finish Kholms finally tie it with it.” But he managed to finally say goodbye to Holmes only three years before his death. The last, sixtieth case of Holmes was dated 1927. "So, reader, we say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes. I thank you for your constancy and I can only hope that I gave you something, distracting you from life worries and awakening new thoughts. ” Sayable with Holmes and the series "tested by time", in which three books about him were published.

Translation from English Inna Bernstein, Nina Emeliannikova, Nina Dekhtereva, Deborahs of Livshits, Lev Borovoy, Marina and Nikolai Chukovsky, Ida Lawkart. The accompanying article by Irina Golovinskaya.

Irina Grigoryevna Golovinskaya - journalist, editor, essayist. She graduated from the Romano-German branch of the Filfak of Moscow State University. She worked in the newspapers "News Time" and "Another View", the magazine "Politburo". She was the editor of the Radio Freedom site. Articles, essays and reviews published in the newspaper "Today" and the magazine "Results". The author-compiler of the collection "Return to Moscow"