The Empty House

Sherlock Holmes is alive! Years after Sherlock and Professor Moriarty fall down from Reichanbach Fall, while everyone thinks that Sherlock will never came back, Sherlock appear in front of Watson in an afternoon. The story begins with Watson trying to solve the crime of Ronald Adair's murder. In an afternoon, when Watson went to the crime scene, he bump into an old man who holds a bunch of book on his hand. Later, when Watson went back to his home, he saw the old man in his house and trying to sell him the books, and when he look back, he saw Sherlock Holmes standing behind him and faint in the shock. When Watson wake up, he asks Sherlock how did he even survived after he fall down from the waterfall, therefore, Sherlock explain that he's not dead actually but have to fake his death to find the rest of the people who works with Moriarty. After years of traveling, he finally came back to London to catch the last companion of Moriarty. Sherlock says that only his brother, Mycroft Holmes, knows his entire plain, and he tries to write letters to Watson but afraid that he might led the others know his situation therefore he didn't do it. Sherlock later bring Watson back to Baker Street, but they hide in a house beside 221B, their original house, since Sherlock wants to catch Moriarty's companion. Sherlock put a model of him in their original house and tell Mrs.Hudson to move it so that the villain will think that they are still in the house. However, Moriarty's companion still find Sherlock and Watson, but get caught by Lestrade in the name of murder Ronald Adair.

After reading this story, I feel really glad that I didn't live in Arthur Conan Doyle's time period, or else I have to wait years and years for Sherlock's return. I think the part when Watson realize that Sherlock is still alive is quite funny but reasonable. Although the story was published years after The Final Problem, but I still think this is a great story that welcome Sherlock's return!