Showing results for "The Last Doctor" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English travel writer, novelist and war correspondent during World War I. 'Dr. Faust's Last Day' tells the story of a 70-year-old scholar who lives a regular studious life. On his birthday he invites his friends over for lunch, but he is puzzled by a strange note written in red ink which arrives from an unknown gentleman. The writer says he cannot make the lunch party but will call just after midnight.

A story that describes the suffering of a man who became disabled after getting married and was exposed to support from the last person he expected it to be, and faced alienation and abuse from the person closest to him.

A short story that tells the story of a man who traveled to a Gulf country, only to have a tremendous and unexpected transformation happen to him, as if it were the second side of the life goat story.

This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson's portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes: a body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears.