"The Adventure of the Dying Detective", in some editions simply titled "The Dying Detective", is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Together with seven other stories, it is collected as His Last Bow. It was first published in Collier’s Weekly Magazine in November 1913 with three illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele and in The Strand Magazine in December 1913 with four illustrations by Walter Paget.