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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four is the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series, following the enormously successful novel A Study In Scarlet. With the mysterious disappearance of a British Indian army officer, a one-legged hooligan, a stolen treasure, and a nefarious pact between four con-men, this novel of revenge and love is an exquisite classic of crime fiction.
In the infamous opening of the novel, Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes in...
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"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry
"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré
"Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...
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El detective Sherlock Holmes y su asistente, el Doctor Watson, son llamados para investigar la misteriosa muerte de un rico residente de Dartmoor cuya muerte parece estar conectada con la maldición de un legendario y monstruoso perro de origen sobrenatural.
En El sabueso de los Baskerville vemos la primera aparición de Holmes desde su supuesta muerte en El problema final y el éxito de la novela llevó al eventual resurgimiento del personaje hasta...
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"The Red-Headed League" is the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. Wilson is hired on the basis of the precise hue of his hair color and performs menial work at a...
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"A Scandal in Bohemia" is the first short story, third overall work featuring Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson recounts that a masked visitor to Baker Street is quickly deduced to be the hereditary King of Bohemia. The King is to become engaged to a young Scandinavian princess. However, five years before, he had a liaison with American opera singer, Irene Adler. Fearful that the marriage would be called off, he had sought to...
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"The Naval Treaty", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" 19th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
Dr. Watson receives a letter, which he then refers to Holmes, from an old schoolmate, now a Foreign Office employee from Woking who has had an important naval treaty...
9) Silver Blaze
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This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Sherlock Holmes series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In...
10) Flamme d'argent
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L'auteur à succès international Mark Williams est fier de présenter le deuxième tome des adaptations courtes pour enfants, de la série Classiques pour enfants: Flamme d'argent. Rejoignez Holmes et Watson qui tentent de résoudre le mystère du cheval disparu, Flamme d'argent, dans un livre au langage moderne et accessible aux enfants, qui laisse de côté les aspects difficiles de la langue de l'époque. Idéal pour initier les enfants de tout...
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"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final...
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"The Reigate Squires" was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous...
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"The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919 and was collected later in “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale....
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"The Stockbroker's Clerk" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones (owing to the omission of the "scandalous" "Adventure of the Cardboard Box"). The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1893 and featured seven illustrations by Sidney Paget.
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Thrilling crime-solving exploits of Holmes and Dr. Watson in a collection of adventure classics: "The Red-Headed League," "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "Silver Blaze," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Engineer's Thumb," and "The Crooked Man."
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La aventura del puente Thor: En el Puente Thor han encontrado el cadáver de la esposa de un magnate. Todas las pruebas señalan que la asesina ha sido a la institutriz de sus hijos.
La banda de lunares: Sherlock Holmes debe aclarar la misteriosa muerte de una joven.
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No child is too young to appreciate the amazing deductive powers of the worlds smartest detective. These easy-to-read Sherlock Holmes stories provide the perfect introduction to the super sleuth and his friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. Among the intriguing tales: "A Scandal in Bohemia," Holmess first encounter with the mysterious Irene Adler, "The Red-Headed League", "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" and others.
18) El mundo perdido
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El profesor Challenger afirma que, en nuestro planeta, existe un extraño lugar donde aún viven los animales del Jurásico. Como la comunidad científica no le cree, él los desafía a viajar a ese lugar y tres hombres aceptan el reto. Pero al llegar, se encuentran con una realidad mucho más extraordinaria de lo que suponían. Esta novela de aventuras de Arthur Conan Doyle, que inspiró la saga Jurassic Park, sin duda tendrá tanto éxito entre...
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L'auteur à succès international Mark Williams est fier de présenter le premier tome des adaptations courtes pour enfants, de la série Classiques pour enfants: L'escarboucle bleue. Rejoignez Holmes et Watson qui tentent de résoudre le mystère de l'escarboucle bleue, dans un livre au langage moderne et accessible aux enfants, qui laisse de côté les aspects difficiles de la langue de l'époque. Idéal pour initier les enfants de tout âge au...
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Un mini-roman plein de suspense et de rebondissements !
Prévenu par la logeuse de Sherlock Holmes, le docteur Watson accourt au chevet du célèbre détective. Sherlock Holmes n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même, il délire et ne laisse pas Watson s'approcher de lui. À force de persuasion, le bon docteur parvient quand même à le raisonner et obtient de lui qu'il voie un spécialiste. Mais Holmes ne veut en voir qu'un : Culverton Smith...
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