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Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective, as portrayed through the eyes of his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson, a retired army physician. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson take on their first case together, involving a body discovered in an abandoned London house with a bloody message scrawled on the wall above.

"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 Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, and The Speckled Band. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, A Scandal in Bohemia.

"The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories. It is also the second of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892.

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror.

Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.

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 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country. Arguably...

A follow up to Arthur Conan Doyles well known novel, The Lost World, the Poison Belt is a short story set over a single 24 hour span of time. On the Anniversary of their momentous trip to the Plateau, as depicted in The Lost World, the irascible Professor Challenger calls his companions to his...

A collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The...

Originally published in the Strand Magazine between December 1894 and September 1903. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated author of Sherlock Holmes and the Lost, follows the adventures of Brigadier Etienne Gerard, a courageous soldier in the service of Napoleon...

Reporter Edward Malone seeking a really heroic assignment to impress his would be paramour; Gladys, is sent to try to gain an interview with the irascible Professor Challenger. But he has little idea of the strange chain of events he is about to become embroiled in! He soon finds himself as a...

"...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...

O lume dispărută, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, este un roman clasic de aventură și science-fiction care urmărește expediția profesorului Challenger într-un ținut izolat din America de Sud, unde timpul pare să fi rămas pe loc. Acolo, exploratorii descoperă dinozauri, plante preistorice...

A Study in Scarlet: When Dr. John Watson, freshly returned from the war in Afghanistan, searches for a flatmate in London, he meets the eccentric private detective. Soon, their living arrangement is interrupted by a macabre murder in an abandoned house. A mysterious, woundless corpse and the word «RACHE» written in blood baffle the police. Using his unparalleled science of deduction, Holmes will unravel a dark web of revenge that originated decades ago in the unforgiving deserts of Utah.

Es ist eine mysteriöse Angelegenheit, mit der Major Murphy vom „Royal Munsters Regiment" an Sherlock Holmes herantritt: In der Villa „Lachine" in Aldershot ist der hochdekorierte Kriegsheld Colonel James Barclay auf brutale Weise ermordet worden. Allem Anschein nach von seiner eigenen Frau Nancy, mit der Barclay seit über 30 Jahren eine unauffällige, fast schon mustergültige Ehe führte. Zeugen berichten von einem heftigen Streit des Ehepaares, der kurz vor dem Mord entbrannte.

Kaum jemand in London kann auf einen so rasanten Geschäftserfolg und gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg verweisen, wie der berühmte „Doktor von Brooke Street". Als Spezialist für Nervenleiden hat Dr. Percy Trevelyan sich einen Namen gemacht, und trotz seiner eher bescheidenen Anfänge verfügt er inzwischen über ein stattliches Vermögen. Erst als dramatische Umstände ihn dazu zwingen, sich um Hilfe an Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson zu wenden, lüftet Trevelyan das Geheimnis seines Erfolges: Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei ein mysteriöser Wohltäter, der sich daher auch nur „Mr. Blessington" nennt.

Als Dr. Watson dem Begräbnis eines Kollegen beiwohnt, wird er von einem Fremden angesprochen, der sich als Anwalt Gabriel Utterson vorstellt. Dieser bittet ihn und Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe in einer seltsamen Angelegenheit: Sein Freund und Klient, Dr. Henry Jekyll, steht offenbar unter dem verderblichen Einfluss eines gewissen Edward Hyde, der zudem für den Mord an einem Parlamentsabgeordneten verantwortlich sein dürfte.

Der ehrwürdige Lord Canterville bittet Sherlock Holmes in einer seltsamen Angelegenheit um Hilfe: Auf seinem Landsitz in Berkshire treibt offenbar ein Spukgespenst sein Unwesen. Holmes und Watson bevorzugen zwar eine wissenschaftliche Erklärung, nehmen aber den Auftrag zur Geisterjagd an.

"The Adventure of the Three Gables" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected as one of 12 in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1926 as a serial. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow.

The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher. When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at work. But there is much more to this tale of murder than meets the eye.

A timeless collection of classic detective fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Red-Headed League, along with The Cabman’s Story. Written by Arthur Conan Doyle, this volume delivers suspense, clever deductions, and unforgettable Victorian mystery...