Trivia
- Sherlock Holmes' undercover name, Altamont, is also the middle name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's father, Charles Altamont Doyle.
- After Seeing Holmes years later, Watson remarks on how Holmes has not changed except for a " horrible goatee " to which Holmes explains is the sacrifice he had to make for his country.
- The events leading up to and beyond this story were described in Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (1994, ISBN 978-0-7490-0546-7), by Barrie Roberts. Holmes, in retirement, is asked by some railway companies to investigate two terrible derailments. It transpires the crashes and later bombings were assassination attempts by a bomber acting under instructions from Von Bork. It takes Holmes years to get close to Von Bork, to capture him, then interrogate him to get closer to the bomber.
- The end of Nicholas Meyer's 1993 novel The Canary Trainer tie into "His Last Bow", with Edward Grey and H. H. Asquith approaching Holmes to request he come out of retirement to investigate a man named Von Bork.
Read more about this topic: His Last Bow (story)
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