Arthur Conan Doyle
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English
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We owe The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed...
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English
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"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!" With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knights ride into battle, accompanied by the stalwart archers known as the White Company. Fueled by their appetite for glory, this motley crew of freebooters stands united in their unswerving devotion to the company commander, Sir Nigel Loring. Short, bald,...
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Publisher
New Orchard Editions
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
While Doyle's best-known novels are mysteries with Sherlock Holmes and Watson as protagonists, he is also a prolific novelist in historical fiction. These stories, set in medieval England, Napoleonic France, and beyond, show Doyle's talent for storytelling.
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English
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A series of short stories in which mystery master Arthur Conan Doyle dishes up action and hilarity in equal measures. The stories follow the adventures of the eponymous brigadier, a Frenchman who is puzzled by British mores and manners but is always at the ready to defend his own or another's honor, either by word or by the sword.
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Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
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In "The Valley of Fear," a murder is strangely related to a cipher message sent by an associate of Professor Moriarty, and in "The Final Problem," Sherlock Holmes assists the police in the capture of Professor Moriarty's criminal gang.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to a sinister house, they discover the body of a man whose face is filled with horror. Yet there are no signs of a struggle, just some letters written on the wall in blood. The police are baffled, but the brilliant Holmes uses his powers of deduction to trace the mystery through the damp, murky streets of London and back to the sun-scorched plains of America"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
His Last Bow: Dr Watson once again opens his portfolio to reveal eight strange cases solved by the keen intellect of the master detective. They range from murder and kidnapping to theft and treachery. Motives for the crimes may be vengeance, greed or jealousy - or what seems like practical jokes gone wrong.
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Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
El presente volumen recoge las cuatro novelas protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, el emblemático y perspicaz detective del 221 B de Baker Street: Estudio en escarlata (1887), El signo de los cuatro (1890), El perro de los Baskerville (1902) y El valle del miedo (1915). A lo largo de estas páginas, y con la ayuda inestimable del doctor Watson, Holmes recorrerá las calles de un Londres victoriano convertido en un laberinto de pistas falsas, resolverá...
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Publisher
Greenhill Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes, brings us the mysterious Raffles Haw. Robert McIntyre and his sister Laura have fallen on hard times. Their father has been driven into bankruptcy and near madness and alcoholism by commercial reverses and the death of his wife. The family has retreated to a house in the country, living on a small bequest from other relatives. Changes come with the arrival of Raffles Haw, a new neighbor...
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Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most popular and influential fictional detective. In four novels and fifty-six short stories, Holmes with his trusted friend Dr. Watson, steps from his comfortable quarters at 221B Baker Street into the swirling fog of London. Combining detailed observation with brilliant deduction, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles crime...
19) The lost world
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters.