In the ten years since Sherlock Holmes plunged over the Reichenbach Falls, the clamor for more stories had not abated. At last, in 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle relented; "The Adventure of the Empty House" appeared in The Strand Magazine, ingeniously explaining Holmes's survival and subsequent hiatus. Eleven more stories followed, all collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and again Conan Doyle insisted it was the end of Holmes—yet he returned in the 1914 novel The Valley of Fear, along with his old nemesis Moriarty. Both books are presented here, with an introduction by Daniel Stashower. Presented with a flexible cloth cover, sewn binding, colored endpapers, and an elastic closure band, this handsome book is part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, which offers enduring literary works in portable, durable editions.