The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mycroft Holmes visiting his brother, 1908 illustration by Arthur Twidle in The Strand Magazine
Publication
Publication dateDecember 1908
SeriesHis Last Bow

"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow (1917), and is the second and final main appearance of Mycroft Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and in Collier's in the United States in 1908.

Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.[1]