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In "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attempted a feat that even the greatest criminal minds in England could not accomplish: He tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes. (And he very nearly succeeded.)
Doyle's 1894 collection of short stories - which featured some of the most enoyable tales in the Holmes canon, including "Silver Blaze," "The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Crooked Man" - concludes with what was meant to be the last...
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Extrait: "Il était neuf heures du soir le 2 août (le plus terrible des mois d'août de l'histoire mondiale). On aurait pu croire que déjà la malédiction divine pesait lourdement sur un monde dégénéré, car un silence impressionnant ainsi qu'un sentiment d'expectative planaient dans l'air suffocant, immobile."
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Extrait: "En publiant ces croquis tirés de dossiers innombrables, j'insiste tout naturellement davantage sur les succès de Holmes que sur ses échecs. Ne croyez pas que je le fasse dans l'intérêt de sa réputation: c'était en effet dans les cas o toutes ses ressources paraissaient épuisées qu'il déployait une énergie et une vivacité d'esprit absolument admirables."
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A treasure trove of mysteries drawn from the case files of the world's cleverest private investigators. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features many of the consulting detective's best-known cases. "A Scandal in Bohemia" finds Holmes matching wits with-and being outfoxed by-a beautiful American opera singer. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy, in "The Red-Headed League." And in "The Adventure...
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Descubra los mejores cuentos de Arthur Conan Doyle.
Arthur Conan Doyle logra a través de sus extraordinarias creaciones mantener la atención del asombrado lector en todo momento, y no sólo con las famosas aventuras de su héroe, el excéntrico gentleman poseedor de la inteligencia más sofisticada y brillante de toda la literatura, el incisivo y perspicaz detective Sherlock Holmes, sino también con relatos cortos de terror y misterio, algunos...
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It's the eve of the First World War, and Sherlock Holmes has retired and taken up beekeeping, or has he? This short spy story is the final tale in the masterful detective's chronology and reveals new depths to his sleuthing skill.
Now past his prime, Sherlock Holmes has retired to the countryside to live a quiet life in his remaining years. Yet as the First World War approaches, British government officials reach out to the once-great detective...
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Read the short story that shocked Sherlock Holmes fans across the globe and discover how the renowned detective got away with his greatest coup yet: surviving death.
It's been three years since Sherlock Holmes had a fatal encounter with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls, and Doctor Watson has started investigating crime alone. When a seemingly unsolvable locked-room murder occurs, Watson visits the crime scene. Several odd characters are...
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Join Sherlock Holmes as he investigates a quietly curious tenant who only communicates with his landlady through a series of notes in broken English.
Mrs. Warren comes to 221B Baker Street to ask for Sherlock Holmes' help after a new tenant moves into her rooms. The gentle landlady is concerned that her tenant isn't all he first appeared to be. After requesting to pay double the current rent on the condition of getting the room on his own terms,...
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These early works by Arthur Conan Doyle were originally published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and we are now republishing them 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...
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A thrilling and suspenseful short story featuring the renowned Sherlock Holmes and his remarkable companion, Doctor Watson, as they investigate the curious happenings at Three Gables.
When an elderly woman, Mary Maberley, approaches Sherlock Holmes to ask for help, her case doesn't seem interesting enough to appeal to him. Shortly after receiving her request, the masterful detective is threatened by a hired thug to stay away from the case, and...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a collection of thirteen stories involving one of literature's most beloved characters and an integral volume in the canon of inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in this edition.
Literature's beloved private detective returns from the grave in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and ever-loyal physician and devoted best friend Dr. John Watson is there...
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Follow Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to a university town where they investigate three students to uncover who is attempting to cheat on a valuable examination paper.
In this short Sherlock Holmes story, the famous detective is called away from his usual high-stakes crime investigations and must solve a case with very few clues on a university campus. Someone has snuck into a lecturer's office and copied the answers to an important examination...
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This short story highlights the phenomenal mind of Sherlock Holmes as the detective unravels the complex case of a star rugby player's disappearance.
Godfrey Staunton plays in the three-quarters position of the University of Cambridge rugby team. When he disappears just before a big game against Oxford, the entire team is desperate to uncover his whereabouts. Despite sports being beyond Sherlock Holmes' field of knowledge, he agrees to take on...
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