Arthur Conan Doyle - Libros y biografía

This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new...

Near their residence, Branksome, is Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous...

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our...

Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of the detective story, but his literary prowess did not begin and end with the whodunit. This volume collects a wide array of the author's short works of fiction, spanning...

Set at the end of the seventeenth century in Paris and the New World.

Although Arthur Conan Doyle is now best remembered as the creator of the timeless Sherlock Holmes series of detective stories, he was also something of a social activist in his day who used his acclaim...

The first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, wherein the detective resolves to solve the mystery of a corpse found at a derelict house with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body....

The stark ideological division between Catholics and Protestants has long been an issue in British society, spurring numerous bloody conflicts along the way. In the engrossing historical novel Micah Clarke,...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective. Arthur Conan Doyle's compilation was originally published...

"Die Desintegrationsmaschine" (im Original: "The Disintegration Machine" oder auch "The Man Who Would Wreck the World") ist eine 1929 erschienene Kurzgeschichte des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur...

"Als die Erde schrie" (Im Original: "When the World Screamed") ist eine 1928 erschienene Kurzgeschichte des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Im Zentrum der Erzählung steht eine Expedition...

»Eine Studie in Scharlachrot« ist der erste Sherlock Holmes-Roman von Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes begegnen sich und schließen Freundschaft. Schon bald darauf erfahren sie von einem schrecklichen...

Sherlock Holmes ist der Prototyp des modernen Detektivs. Mit geistiger Brillanz, logischem Denkvermögen und einem herausragenden Talent in kriminalistischer Spurendeutung löst Sherlock Holmes seine Fälle....

»Im Tal des Grauens« ist der vierte Sherlock Holmes-Roman von Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes wird beauftragt, den Mord an Mr. Douglas von Birlstone Manor House aufzuklären. Das Opfer wurde in seinem...

À la mort du seigneur de Minstead, son fils, le jeune Alleyne Edricson, est confié à une abbaye, celle-ci devant le renvoyer dans le monde une fois parvenu à maturité. Ce jour arrivé, le jeune Alleyne...

Valoa ja varjoja sisältää Arthur Conan Doylen varhaisia rikoskertomuksia vuosilta 1881-1891. Ne valottavat kirjailijan ensimmäisiä askelia aiheen parissa ja kohti hänen kestävintä luomustaan, Sherlock...

The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles. The title of the British collection was The Case-Book...

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of seven previously-published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Five of the stories were published in The Strand Magazine...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr...

Un groupe cosmopolite de touristes, parti du Caire à bord du Korosko pour une croisière sur le Nil, est enlevé par une troupe de derviches musulmans fanatiques qui tentent de les emmener à Karthoum pour...

Ce roman nous emmène en voyage dans la vieille Angleterre, dans le monde du spiritisme et de la voyance. Le journaliste Edward Mallone mène l'enquête auprès des médiums et dans les réunions spiritistes....

Il importe que je consigne tout de suite ces choses stupéfiantes, alors qu’elles gardent dans mon esprit leur netteté première et une exactitude de détails que le temps risquerait d’affaiblir. Mais, d’abord,...

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle war sehr viel mehr als nur der Erfinder von Sherlock Holmes. Es ist vielen nicht bekannt, dass Conan Doyle sich auch mit dem Spiritismus befasste.

The German War is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. in december 1914. This volume contains a collection of Conan Doyle's essays on WWI written at or shortly...

The War In South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle. For some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the British are very slow to state their case to the world. At present...

Non esistono, nella storia della letteratura scientifica come nel genere giallo, personaggi che per fama e carisma possano competere alla pari con Sherlock Holmes. Il detective più famoso della storia,...

Nous avions, Holmes et moi, un faible marqué pour le Bain Turc. Là, dans la bonne lassitude du séchoir, au cours d’une fumerie, je le trouvais moins réticent, plus intime que partout ailleurs. L’établissement...