TY - JOUR AB - Arthur Conan Doyle and his consulting detective had been famous for more than ten years when Doyle came to write <em>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</em>. In the following essay, I argue that this experience of fame shaped the composition of the third series of Holmes stories, in which the detective is resurrected a decade after going over the Reichenbach Falls. The essay approaches celebrity as a competitive interaction in which the public, the press, and the celebrity vie for control. It is argued that the stories in <em>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</em> work to empower the various celebrities that they portray – including not just Holmes but also well-known aristocrats, statesmen, scholars, and female ‘beauties’ – and to disempower their rival co-participants in the celebrity dynamic: the public and the press. AU - Thomas Vranken DA - 2015/12// DO - 10.21825/aj.v4i2.1441 IS - 2 VL - 4 PB - PY - 2015 TI - The Public, the Press, and Celebrities in The Return of Sherlock Holmes T2 - Authorship UR - https://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/id/63931/ ER -