The Poison Belt - formato ePub

Colección de 5 de las mejores obras del autor Arthur Conan Doyle que incluye: Estudio en escarlata El ciclista solitario El sabueso de los Baskerville Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes La aventura del...

En Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creó uno de los personajes literarios más conocidos y más realizados en el mundo. Desde la muerte de Doyle, ha habido un montón de escritores que imitan sus...

Los casos más intrincados del célebre detective Sherlock Holmes.Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes, la segunda colección de cuentos de Arthur Conan Doyle protagonizada por el detective más famoso del mundo,...

Una de las más populares aventuras del detective privado Sherlock Holmes.Holmes y Watson son llamados a investigar los extraños crímenes aparentemente relacionados con una antigua maldición que pesa sobre...

Antes de aparecer en un solo volumen, las historias recogidas en este libro fueron publicadas individualmente en la revista Strand entre 1891 y 1892. Su autor alcanzó una enorme popularidad gracias a...

El caso más enigmático de Sherlock Holmes.Tras la misteriosa desaparición de su padre, Mary Morstan empieza a recibir valiosas perlas de un remitente desconocido. Después de unos meses de silencio, el...

El primer caso de los célebres detectives Sherlock Holmes y Watson.En Estudio en escarlata, Sherlock Holmes se enfrenta a su primer caso con la valiosa ayuda del doctor John Watson, con quien apenas lleva...

Cuento de la serie del famoso detective Sherlock Holmes en la que se lleva a cabo un secuestro y en donde la participación de un personaje políglota es el eje central, ya que fungirá como intérprete de...

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: La novela, en dos partes, comienza con la declaración de que se trata de una "Reimpresión de las memorias del doctor John H. Watson, antiguo miembro del cuerpo...

En Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creó uno de los personajes literarios más conocidos y más realizados en el mundo. Desde la muerte de Doyle, ha habido un montón de escritores que imitan sus...

En "La Diadema de Berilos", Sherlock Holmes es contratado para resolver el misterio de una preciosa corona, confiada a un banquero, que ha sido dañada y parcialmente robada. El hijo del banquero se convierte...

Efectivamente, el método deductivo de Sherlock Holmes y las simpáticas torpezas de su colaborador, el doctor Watson, hicieron rápidamente célebre a Doyle, transformándolo en un clásico de la novela policial.

Las doce aventuras, consideradas obras menores de la bibliografía de Holmes, son sin embargo muestras de lo mejor de su estilo. No hay grandes ni sensacionales casos, aunque se vea involucrado un rey...

El Perro de los Baskerville es una de las más célebres novelas de terror, basada en una leyenda sobre un perro fantasmal, merodeador de la región de Dartmoor, una áspera y desolada parameda de unas doscientas...

El escritor británico de origen escocés sir Conan Doyle, Arthur (1859-1939) no es solamente el genial creador del inmortal detective aficionado Sherlock Holmes y de su inseparable amigo el doctor Watson,...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, el famoso novelista inglés creador de Sherlock Holmes, practica la medicina hasta que comienza a escribir, iniciando su carrera con dos novelas:Micah Clarke (1889) y Estudio en...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

There are times when being a legendary shifter is a plain pain in the butt, and this is one of those times...Farness Duncan, more commonly known as Ness or Nessie, had lived his life quite happily for...

Angel Whitlock, owner of Dig It nursery, knows three things. She knows everything about native Australian plants, she knows that her friends will always have her back, and now she knows that she needs...

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having...

Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries...

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it c. 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words...

The gods of ancient Rome have awakened after sleeping for two millennia under a curse,and they're awake just in time to finish off the mortals or save them from themselves.Charon the Ferryman has just...

A Bride of the Plains is a historical novel written in 1915 by Baroness Orczy, the author of the famous The Scarlet Pimpernel series. It is dedicated to the memory of Lajos Kossuth, and in the dedication...

- The eighth book in the sweeping science-fantasy NEXUS series and sequel to Fear of the Light - The gunslinger and the assassin. Star-crossed. Hopeful. He's dangerously in love. He's willing to sacrifice...

WHEN children advance beyond the nursery age, no story is so wonderful as a true story. Fiction to them is never as appealing as fact. I have often been faced with the inquiry: whether or not a story...

MORE than a thousand years have rolled away since a castle looked down cheerfully from a height amid the Franconian plains into the well-watered Kinzig Valley, with its pleasant villages and towns. It...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a...

My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have...

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before....

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

When does life begin?... A well-known book says "forty". A well-known radio program says "eighty". Some folks say it's mental, others say it's physical. But take the strange case of Mel Carlson who gave...

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...