Moreover, Lady Brackenstall found it hard to adjust to life in England after the freedom that she enjoyed in her native Australia, which she left 18 months before. Sir Eustace Brackenstall was a violent, abusive drunkard. Lady Brackenstall tells Holmes that her marriage was not happy. Her maid, Theresa Wright, who has been with her mistress since she was born, later tells Holmes that Sir Eustace stabbed her with a hatpin. Holmes and Watson arrive at Abbey Grange, where Lady Brackenstall is resting with a purple swelling over one eye, the result of a blow during the previous night's incident. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the infamous Randall gang, a father and two sons, who have committed several other burglaries in the neighbourhood. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by burglars. minimally foxy outer paper-edges slightly dusty OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY.Holmes wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Joints, bottom of spine and sharp-corners somwhat-, top of spine and panels' corners minimally to slightly rubbed cloth-surface split at rearjoint between 5-cm fromt top to 6-cm from bottom with a few loose strings at both ends of the affected area front flyleaf with slight-, rear-fly with minor glueshadow foretitle sheet partly-, last page of ads. 'The Adventure of the Empty House' describes the circumstances of his survival and informs the reader that Holmes spent some time in Tibet in the meantime. Doyle published these new adventures of the famous detective after 'public demand' to revive his hero after his assumably death at Swiss Reichenbach Falls in 1893. 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in the 'Strand Magazine' in England and 'Collier's' in the United States in 1903 1904. Tarnhof'(or Tamhof?, ink) and a pencil reference possibly by the same hand 'Reichskanzlei / Berlin / Wilhelmstrass' (from the 1930ies to 1945 Adolf Hitler's residence with the Führerbunker underneath) above the printed foretitle.
Books, / Paris, 224, rue de Rivoli / Nice, 8, Avenue Masséna', foretitle top-right with probably slightly later difficult-to-read holograph ownership-name 'B. circulating-library's - sticker of the period 'THE GAGLIANI LIBRARY / Engl. *** FIRST BOOK-EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL OF DOYLE'S THIRD COLLECTION OF SHERLOCK-HOLMES STORIES WITH AN INTERESTING HISTORY: Inner frontpal bottom-right with a bookseller's - resp. Publisher's gilt-titled blue cloth-binding 8vo.(ca. 'Illustrations', 401 (1) pages on thicker paper with 15 intercalated singleside printed plates of illustrations, (4) p. 1 blank sheet, Foretitlesh., Frontispice-plate, Titlesheet, 1 Sh.
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