"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series promoted a second set of stories, "The Memoirs". In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for ... |
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A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers - these are only some of the apparently unsolvable cases contained in this volume, which the great sleuth, assisted by his trusted friend Doctor Watson, is challenged to clear up with the aid of his sagacity and unrivalled analytical skills. Published a quarter of a century after the first book of Holmes adventures, and including the famous titular story His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes, this collection shows the detective&# ... |
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I know every move of your game... It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes... If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you. With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The collection culminates in The Final Problem, in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective’s downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish ... |
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Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and suspected murderer; a retired art-supply dealer asks him to investigate the suspicious disappearance of his wife with a neighbour and a stash of money; a veteran of the Boer War appeals to him to track down a missing friend; a man has become convinced that his wife has been sucking their baby son's blood. Will the most famous of sleuths be persuaded to offer his services and set off in ... |
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From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in The Adventure of the Speckled Band, mystified by a missing thumb in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in A Scandal in Bohemia, never once losing his famous cool. First appearing separately in the Strand Magazine, these stories were ... |
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries", Sherlock Holmes expert David Stuart Davies has selected the cases of the great detective that best reflect Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's deep interest in the supernatural. The first is the terrifying novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles", followed by nine Gothic adventures: "The Sussex Vampire", "The Creeping Man", "Shoscombe Old Place", "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", "The Veiled Lodger", "The Devil's Foot", "The ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories, in which we learn about Holmes' early days as a sleuth, encounter a seemingly murderous widow, and meet the great detective's brother, Mycroft, for the first time. And, in "The Final Problem", Holmes comes face-to-face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in a battle of wits that could kill them both. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies - a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and an ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is perhaps the greatest collection of detective stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a series of baffling and bizarre cases, including those of a man terrified by the arrival of an envelope containing orange pips, and a woman whose fiancé disappeared on his way to their wedding. Each story showcases the great detective's inimitable and extraordinary deductive powers, recounted to us by his faithful friend and colleague, Dr Watson. This "Macmillan ... |
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When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin to justice. But on being informed soon afterwards that one John Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been found with his head blown apart by a shotgun, he realizes that he is too late. And so begins an enthralling tale of revenge, vigilantism and secret societies, one that transports the reader from the English countryside to the violent world of the American frontier of the 1860s. The fourth and final novel in the Sherlock Holmes canon, ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by David Stuard Davies. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Featuring crypts at midnight, strange bones in a furnace and a blood-sucking vampire, these tales explore the darker side of human nature and involve betrayal, violence and the terrible consequences of infidelity. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies - a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and an authority on ... |
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Sechs Erzählungen. ... Sherlock Holmes ist die mit Abstand schillerndste aller Detektivfiguren - sein einzigartiger Spürsinn und seine untrügliche Kombinationsgabe machten ihn weltberühmt. Dieser Band präsentiert eine Auswahl der sechs besten und verblüffendsten Kriminalgeschichten, in denen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) seinen genialen Meisterdetektiv und dessen treuen Mitstreiter Dr. Watson ermitteln ließ. Enthalten sind "Ein Skandal in Böhmen", "Das gesprenkelte Band", "Der griechische Dolmetscher", "Das letzte Problem", "Das ... |
