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Robert Armitage tells how his friend John Barrington Cowles died in strange circumstances. In the spring of 1879, the two students visited an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. This is where Cowles met a beautiful lady named Kate Northcott, and they instantly fell in love with each other.

"...he’s a man whom I, for one, would rather not know." So says Abercrombie Smith's friend to him one night about the man in the room directly below his: Edward Bellingham. But Smith soon finds himself drawn into the acquaintance of the strange, Egypt obsessed man, and his room full of strange...

Originally named A Tangled Skein, this is the first Sherlock Holmes story. The real strength and the unique quality of the novel lies in the introduction of Holmes and Watson to each other - and those dark early scenes when a corpse is discovered in a derelict house in southeast London. The ultimate crusader against crime and criminals, Holmes' genius is revealed here for the very first time.

Sherlock Holmes und die Gruft: Wovon ich heute berichten möchte, hatte sich im Spätherbst des Jahres 1896 ereignet. Die Geschehnisse fanden im Londoner Sankt-Lukas-Hospital für Geisteskranke und in der kleinen Ortschaft Castle Hedingham statt. Sherlock Holmes und das Bild im Haus: Wovon ich heute berichten möchte, handelt von den Urinstinkten des Homo sapiens und spielte sich in einer kleinen Ortschaft namens Altham in der Grafschaft Lancashire ab.

A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. First published in 1892 in Harpers, the story tells of an Oxford college student who, through the use of Egyptian magic, manages to reanimate an ancient Egyptian mummy.

This is the story of a university student, John Barrington Cowles, murdered by his lover, Kate Northcott, an evil woman with psychic powers. It is told from the perspective of another university student, so the narrator is not the protagonist.

When Ambercrombie Smith, a young medical student at Oxford, is summoned to the room of fellow student, Bellingham - a fanatical Egyptologist, who appears to have fainted owing to a severe shock - he uses his medical skills to revive him. But this is by no means the last odd incident involving Bellingham, who appears to be increasingly obsessed with researches around a strange and uncanny Mummy which he keeps in his room.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many types of fiction: mystery, detection, science fiction,and historical adventures. He created many memorable characters, wrote dozens of short stories and more than two dozen novels, Yet everything he wrote fell under the the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.

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.

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.

En 1913, un aviateur qui cherche à monter de plus en plus haut découvre à trente mille pieds une sorte de jungle de l'altitude dont les créatures monstrueuses l'attaquent. Il manque en être victime, y retourne pour les affronter.

Lorsque le narrateur se rend à Paris pour passer quelque jours chez un ami de longue date, le très riche et excentrique Lionel Dacre, il découvre la confortable demeure d'un passionné d'occultisme et de mystère.

Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of which is a 6'7" tall mummy.

In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Inspector Lestrade summons Sherlock Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail.

From the Artic to Egypt to Australia, Doyle tells thrilling tales of crime, suspense, mysterious secrets, and humor.

A frozen Arctic expanse, a captain who appears to be hardly of sound mind and a strange wailing from across the ice fields make for an eerie and desolate voyage. John M’Allister-Ray, a student of medicine aboard the Polestar, records the events in his diary whilst scarcely believing what he is witnessing.

This morning I saw a star twinkling just over the fore-yard, the first since the beginning of May. There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of whom are anxious to get back home to be in time for the herring season, when labour always commands a high price upon the Scotch coast. As yet their displeasure is only signified by sullen countenances and black looks, but I heard from the second mate this afternoon that they contemplated sending a deputation to the Captain to explain their grievance.

En Espanto en las alturas sugiere una tenebrosa posibilidad de la existencia de “criaturas del aire”, seres informes y casi incorpóreos, moradores de las capas altas de la atmósfera, en “las alturas”, tomando como temática principal la historia de la aviación y los pioneros del aire.