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The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow. Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed.

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and capable allies had sustained a set-back in the Trentino owing to a sudden concentration of the Austrians, supported by very heavy artillery. I was asked to undertake this mission. In order to carry it out properly, I stipulated that I should be allowed to visit the British lines first, so that I might have some standard of comparison. The War Office kindly assented to my request. Later ...

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.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King.

Ultima problemă îl aduce pe Sherlock Holmes față în față cu cel mai redutabil adversar al său, genialul profesor Moriarty. Într-o confruntare plină de suspans, urmăriri și pericole, Holmes și doctorul Watson pornesc într-o cursă dramatică prin Europa, iar deznodământul va...

This is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)

This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin

În „Pacientul rezident”, Sherlock Holmes este chemat să dezlege un mister petrecut într-o liniștită locuință de la țară, unde un tânăr medic se confruntă cu întâmplări inexplicabile. Dispariții, comportamente suspecte și secrete bine ascunse transformă cazul într-o...

This is a collection of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle centering around the theme of war, action and adventure. - Summary by Carolin

This is a collection of short stories focusing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named "Round the Red Lamp" as a reference to the red lamps that marked general practitioner's offices in Arthur Conan Doyle's times. - Summary by Carolin

Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventure - he was also a rather successful poet. This is a collection of poems written by the famous author. - Summary by Carolin

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, 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. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the Earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the Earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence. After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon.

While studying the Chronicles of the Convent Holmes finds out about secret rooms, hidden within the walls of the Abbey. And in fact, Watson and Holmes find a secret corridor.

When the Librarian is murdered too, Holmes is at a loss at first. But then he finds a book at the crime scene, with contents that could profoundly question Christian faith.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

Auf Ersuchen des britischen Premierministers übernimmt Sherlock Holmes den Fall eines vermissten Studenten. Die Angelegenheit erhält politische und internationale Brisanz, da es sich bei der verschwundenen Person um ein Mitglied des hawaiianischen Königshauses handelt.

În „Omul necinstit”, Sherlock Holmes investighează un caz în care reputația, șantajul și trădarea se împletesc într-o intrigă plină de suspans. Pornind de la indicii aparent lipsite de importanță, celebrul detectiv descoperă adevărul ascuns în spatele unei dispariții și al...

The Adventure of the Three Students is a clever, university-set story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While staying in Cambridge, Holmes is consulted by Hilton Soames, a tutor whose rooms were broken into the night before a major Greek scholarship examination. The proof sheets of the exam paper had been partially copied, and three students living in the same building are the prime suspects: the athletic Gilchrist, the Indian student Daulat Ras, and the idle McLaren.

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter is a tense story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Cambridge rugby star Godfrey Staunton, known as the "missing three-quarter," vanishes on the eve of a crucial match against Oxford, leaving his team in crisis. His friend and teammate Cyril Overton seeks Holmes's help. Holmes soon discovers that Staunton had secretly married a woman against the wishes of his wealthy and domineering uncle, Lord Mount-James, and that her sudden serious illness is the reason for his disappearance.