Unsigned cartoon, In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes

This full-page cartoon in a popular humor magazine captures the dismay and incredulity that greeted Holmes’s apparent demise in 1893—and the hope that he might somehow return. It pictures an agitated George Newnes, publisher of the Strand Magazine, and a pensive Arthur Conan Doyle beside the detective’s coffin. The caption reads:

Editor Newnes: “Great Scott! Doyle, is he dead?”
The Corpse: “It’s all right, guv’nor; the doctor knows what to do when you want me.”