5.0

Love this book too as I work my way through the Sherlock Holmes canon. Look at the description of the book, and you'll see why it's an important one. Spoiler alert: The author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tired of writing Sherlock Holmes stories with a want to write things of more importance, kills Holmes in the last story, 'The Final Problem'. I'll have to wait to see what happens next after I finish 'The Hounds of the Baskervilles' (one of my favorite books) before reading 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'. I'm reading them in the order they were written. :-)

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