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Includes "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Redheaded League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".

Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to observe the suspects at close hand.

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale---the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."

The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in The Final Problem. The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year.

Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a three-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson, who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the “second most dangerous man in London” who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise.

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most emotionally powerful Sherlock Holmes mysteries, blending deception, greed, and friendship into a masterful tale of crime and loyalty.

Entre toutes les sciences qui existaient, celles qui passionnaient le Professeur von Baumgarten se rapportaient à la psychologie et aux rapports imprécis entre l'esprit et la matière. Depuis de nombreuses années, un problème le tracassait. Toutes ses expériences, toutes ses théories tournaient autour d'un seul point. Cent fois par jour, le Professeur se demandait si un esprit humain pouvait quitter son corps quelque temps et le réintégrer ensuite.

A troubled young woman, Miss Mary Sutherland, arrives at 221B Baker Street in distress. Her fiancé, the mysterious Mr. Hosmer Angel, has vanished on their wedding day without a trace. Her stepfather insists there’s no cause for alarm—yet something in the case feels far from ordinary.

The Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked The Greek Interpreter seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

Quelle bête terrifiante parcourt la lande du Dartmoor, au Sud-Ouest de l'Angleterre ? Un chien maudit qui poursuit les héritiers de la famille Baskerville, et réclame leur âme pour réparer les crimes d'un de leurs ancêtres ?

The Hound of Baskervilles holds the listener in suspense as few murder stories do. Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the Baskerville Curse ‘a great black beast shaped like a hound’, are as unforgettable as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

"Un matin, nous étions assis , ma femme et moi, devant notre petit déjeuner quand la bonne apporta un télégramme. Il était signé de Sherlock Holmes, et il était rédigé comme suit : 'Avez-vous deux jours à perdre ? viens de recevoir une dépêche de l'ouest de l'Angleterre en rapport avec la tragédie de du Val de Boscombe. Serais heureux de vous emmener. Air et décor excellents. Quitterai Paddington par train 11 h 15.'"

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

"The Adventures of Gerard" is a compilation of short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote regarding a French Brigadier named Etienne Gerard who thinks very highly of himself as can be reflected in how he told his stories. The book is divided into chapters containing different segments of his life as a soldier under the leadership of Napoleon together with his personal exploits and the romance that swept his way in between. Typical of war stories, some depicts bloody encounters with his enemies and how he was able to escape those encounters.

Voici les très étranges aventures de John Vansittart, armateur et deuxième associé de la société Hudson et Vansittart, exportatrice de café de Ceylan. Lui et ses proches se souviendront longtemps de son voyage par bateau vers l'Inde. Le surnaturel côtoie le fantastique dans cette aventure à l'atmosphère inquiétante.

Arthur Conan Doyle, le créateur du personnage de "Sherlock Holmes", le détective privé par excellence, était un écrivain prolifique. Il s'est aussi attelé à l'écriture de nombreux romans, historiques ou policier. On découvre ici une autre facette de son talent : l'écriture de nouvelles fantastiques, d'anticipation et d'horreur.

Le docteur James Hardcastle se remet difficilement d'une tuberculose, et doit impérativement partir quelques mois en convalescence.

En 1890, un égyptologue, venu au musée du Louvre pour y étudier certains papyrus, remarque un gardien qui lui semble égyptien. Puis il le découvre, la nuit, délivrant une momie et cherchant une bague. Cet homme étrange lui révèle que, il y a trois mille ans, alors qu'il était prêtre, il a pris un élixir de longue vie et que c'est pour échapper à cette malédiction qu'il recherche cet anneau qui contient un contre-élixir.

Le chef d'escadrille Stangate avait tout pour être heureux. Il était sorti de la guerre sain et sauf, avec une solide réputation acquise dans l'arme qui comptait le plus de héros. Il venait d'avoir trente ans ; une grande et belle carrière s'ouvrait devant lui. Et surtout, la belle Mary MacLean marchait à son bras et elle lui avait promis qu'elle resterait à ce bras-là toute sa vie. Que pouvait demander de plus un homme jeune ? Et cependant un poids pesait lourdement sur son cœur.