doyle have never want to resurrect holmes from his joint death with professor moriarty in the adventure of the final problem . however and financial consideration make him willing ( in 1901 ) to write the hound of the baskervilles and which be still consider his best holmes novel and possibly his best novel . but it be a memoir of the great detective and write before his death . only a great outcry from his public lead doyle to fully resurrect holmes in the adventure of the empty house and publish in 1905. it be not that the new short story ( and the last novel ) be really bad . maybe three of the story be really terrible and but even the terrible one be very readable . several of the late one ( like the adventure of the solitary cyclist ) be really very good . but the unevenness of production ( in particularly after the story in his last bow ( 1917 ) ) become increasingly apparent . he repeat past story line and and he show really negative aspect of holmes . in the story the adventure of the three gable holmes show a sneering sarcasm at a character who be of african ancestry . spoiler come up representthe adventure of charles augustus milverton deal with holmes try to recover compromise letter from milverton and a hugely successful blackmailer . it be an interesting example of how doyle could make a highly readable story with a minimum of plot for there be little real detective work in the tale . holmes be hire to try to negotiate with milverton regard the purchase of the letter and but to get them back no matter what . milverton prove not only unwilling to consider a small amount for the paper but prepare to protect himself from holmes attempt a search of his person . later we learn holmes have get into the household of milverton by romance a maid while disguise . at the end holmes go with watson to burglarize milverton home . he and watson be in the house when they find that milverton be await some new business deal in his study ( someone with information that milverton can use ) . carefully hide and holmes and watson watch a a woman come in and who turn out to be a victim of collateral damage from milverton past activity and and who shoot the blackmailer to death . holmes and watson be able to set fire to milverton collection of compromise document before flee the house and and subsequently discover ( for themselves ) the identity of the woman . the police ( under lestrade ) do not discover who the two mysterious men see run from milverton home be and and they be so disgust by milverton activity ( they never be able to bring anything home against him ) that it be obvious the murder will never be solve . the tale be not one of the fascinating one with real detective work involve like the adventure of the speckled band or silver blaze . it be a tale of mood and late action the issue be will holmes and watson get the paper or will they be catch by milverton . it be not one of the best story and but it be in the bulk of the tale a be really well told and interesting . at the time he write charles augustus milverton and conan doyle have an experience with the police regard his sometimes activity a a highly respect amateur detective or crusader . an artist be find murder in his studio in london and and conan doyle begin write his opinion about how the killing be commit . then he stop apparently warn by his friend at scotland yard that the murder do not bare look into . the victim have be a homosexual and and the police be certain that it be a lover spat go horribly wrong . for the sake of the family of the victim ( this be in 1905 ) doyle drop his interest in the case . so he be aware that sometimes the british police behave with restraint on matter that do not seem to justify their full probing a lestrade restraint towards whoever do kill the villainous milverton in the story . give the description of the story it could have be tell in the normal hour long version of the series . but the teleplay for the master blackmailer spend some time show the horrible dilemma milverton victim ( in victorian or edwardian england ) face . we see a promising young aristocratic army officer kill himself when face with a homosexual exposure because of milverton extravagant demand and all at the start of the teleplay . and it be not only homosexual . men and woman of good reputation in heterosexual marriage could be smear by uncover illegitimate child or past indiscreet relationship . indeed and in the story and the woman who kill milverton be avenge the destruction of her husband ( a prominent nobleman ) destroy by the blackmailer . milverton be well play at his most poisonous blandness by that fine actor robert hardy and who even when confront by the unexpected fury he have unleash be totally unperturbed ( he look like he will just have the angry woman show out of his home in a moment ) . brett and hardwicke do quite well in their holmes and watson role and a to be expect . how serious be the loss of character by rumor or innuendo in 1905. in 1898 one of the hero of the various imperial war and and the leader of the last victorious charge at the battle of omdurman that destroy the mahdist army ( see four feather ) be sir hector macdonald . he be governor of ceylon in 1903 when he suddenly and unexpectedly resign . sir hector return to london and and shot himself in a hotel while await some sort of hearing . it later come out that fight mac and frequently consider the most popular army commander in britain and have be catch have sleep arrangement with native boy . milverton would have eat him up very quickly . or his real life counterpart would have .