Conan Doyle - Libros y biografía

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered...

Nous retrouvons dans cette courte nouvelle, le Pr Challenger et le journaliste Malone. Celui-ci, à la demande de son journal, sollicite le concours du professeur pour rencontrer l'inventeur d'une machine...

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in...

The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library....

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915. Loosely based on the activities of the secret Irish organization that was the Molly...

Near their residence, Branksome, is The 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...

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather...

Through the Magic Door (1907) is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left...

The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland. The novel is divided into two parts: in the first,...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners,...

It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God's curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there...

Qui proponiamo solo il testo in EPUB3. 'Uno studio in rosso', il primo romanzo scritto da Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sulle indagini del detective Sherlock Holmes (in tutto l'autore scrisse 62 fra romanzi...

Invoquer les esprits est parfois dangereux....par cette soirée du mois d'avril, au n°17 de Badderly Gardens, d'étranges phénomènes en seront la preuve.

Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) est un roman policier anglais d'Arthur Conan Doyle, publié pour la première fois dans le Strand Magazine en 1901 et 1902. La légende court dans...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,...

Ce recueil regroupe des contes de mer. Dans Le Coffre à raies, l'auteur nous parle d'un coffre-fort muni d'un dispositif de sécurité tout à fait particulier, alors que Le Capitaine de l'Étoile-polaire...

Une belle description de l'Angleterre du XIXe (ville et campagne), du milieu de la boxe aux débuts de ce sport, dans le cadre d'une intrigue policière.

Le gouverneur de St Kitts - Sir Charles Ewan doit faire pendre le pirate Sharkey mais ce dernier prend la place de Sir Charles sur le bateau du capitaine Scarrow, qui ne connaît pas Sir Charles... Les...

Une entité malfaisante dévore des pionniers de l'aviation par delà les nuages... - Un mystérieux objet, un entonnoir en cuir, nous révèle, grâce à la psychologie des rêves, sa terrible utilisation......

Collection of the full Canon of Sherlock Holmes containing 10 books: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Field Bazaar, The Hound...

Conan Doyle n'a pas toujours vécu de sa plume. Pendant la première guerre mondiale, il a parcouru les côtes d'Afrique comme médecin de bord. Certains de ces douze récits extraordinaires puisent donc leur...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British...

This is Book 5 of the series "The Chronological Sherlock Holmes". "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock...

This is Book 7 of the series "The Chronological Sherlock Holmes". "The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the real-life exploits...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and finalSherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the real-life exploits[citation needed] of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James...

This is Book 6 of the series "The Chronological Sherlock Holmes". "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

This is Book 4 of the series "The Chronological Sherlock Holmes". "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

This edition contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...

This is Book 3 of the series "The Chronological Sherlock Holmes". "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective,...