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The Adventure of the Empty House - Definition and Overview
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The Adventure of the Empty House
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Released 1903
Series The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Client(s) none
Set in 1894
Villain(s) Colonel Sebastian Moran


The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem".

The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes which only served to whet readers' hunger.

The resurrection of Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" has led some scholars to compare it with the story of Easter, others to identify Holmes as a solar myth.


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Places: 221B Baker Street | The Diogenes Club | Reichenbach Falls
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