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A Scandal in Bohemia is one of the most famous cases in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this thrilling detective story, Sherlock Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to recover a compromising photograph from the brilliant and cunning Irene Adler—an enigmatic woman who proves to be Holmes' intellectual equal. As Holmes employs his signature deductive reasoning and disguise tactics, he soon discovers that outwitting Adler may be his most formidable challenge yet.

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty.

While investigating the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, a team led by Dr. Maracot is cut off from their ship and hurled to the bottom of the ocean. There, they find themselves in the remnants of the ancient civilization of Atlantis.

The Complete Original Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1: A Study in Scarlet: with Summary and Analysis invites listeners into the thrilling world of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This first volume features A Study in Scarlet, the story that introduced Holmes' unparalleled intellect and methodical approach to solving crimes.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential...

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier. Will Holmes and Watson reveal the real culprit?...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani În vreme ce poliția se străduiește să dea de urma rubinului furat, Holmes încearcă să organizeze o cină de Crăciun. Însă atunci când piatra prețioasă este găsită, Holmes și Watson se avântă într-o cursă contra cronometru pentru a salva viața unui om nevinovat. Această adaptare realizată de Stephanie Baudet a poveștii originale scrise de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, și superb ilustrată de Arianna Bellucci, te va încânta și te va purta în lumea fantastică a misterelor și a suspansului.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani. "Trupul lui E.J. Drebber – descoperit noaptea trecută într-o casă din Londra. Nicio cauză evidentă a morții. Sângele de la locul faptei pare să fie al unei alte persoane. Adresa găsită e Cleveland, Ohio, SUA. Orice informaţie apreciată." Când o crimă misterioasă îi pune în încurcătură pe polițiștii de la Scotland Yard, cel mai iscusit detectiv amator al lumii este rugat să intervină. Alături de colegul său de apartament, Dr.

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett), Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova), Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre. None of the works included in the collection will leave an inquisitive and demanding reader indifferent.

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" heralded the triumphant resurrection of the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, after his apparent (and untimely) demise in the story "The Final Problem." Under intense pressure from his fans to bring him back after having killed off Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finally relented and, in "The Adventure of the Empty House," explains how Holmes escaped the same, dismal fate as his nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

Presented here are the third, fourth and fifth books of the Sherlock Holmes canon: the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and short story collections "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," all written by Holmes' legendary creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Collected here are some of the most beloved and revered of Doyle's Holmes stories.

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887).

Join the famous British detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he tries to find the killer, with the help of his friend, Dr Watson.

En esta historia, Holmes desentraña el misterio detrás de un antiguo documento familiar que lleva al descubrimiento de un secreto enterrado durante siglos. El relato comienza cuando Reginald Musgrave, un antiguo compañero universitario de Holmes, solicita su ayuda tras la desaparición de dos de sus sirvientes. A través de ingeniosos métodos deductivos, Holmes sigue las pistas ocultas en un ritual ancestral, revelando un tesoro oculto y desentrañando una historia de lealtad y traición que se remonta a la época de los reyes ingleses.

Sherlock Holmes se enfrenta a un misterio aparentemente incomprensible: la destrucción sistemática de bustos de Napoleón. Las estatuillas, todas originadas de un mismo molde, son destrozadas una tras otra por un agresor desconocido en Londres. A través de su característico ingenio deductivo, Holmes descubre una trama que va más allá del simple vandalismo. El detective desenmaraña los hilos de un pasado enterrado que impulsa la frenética búsqueda del agresor.

Un antiguo condiscípulo de Holmes, Reginald Musgrave, soltero, rico y miembro de una antigua familia, solicita su ayuda para que investigue la desaparición de su mayordomo, un hombre inteligente y eficaz, al que ha sorprendido en la biblioteca leyendo un antiguo papel.

Un joven ingeniero hidráulico de Londres, el Sr. Victor Hatherley, les relata los sucesos extraños de la noche anterior, primero al doctor Watson y luego a Sherlock Holmes en persona. Hatherley había sido visitado en su oficina por un hombre viejo y sospechoso que se identificó como el coronel Lysander Stark.

En la historia que tiene lugar en 1890, un prestamista londinense llamado Wilson, un hombre con "cabellos muy rojos", visita a Holmes y Watson. Les dice que su joven empleado, Vincent Spaulding, le había enseñado un anuncio que daba trabajo a alguien con pelo rojo en algo llamado "la Liga de los Pelirrojos" y le había dicho que se presentara para hacer una entrevista. A la mañana siguiente, Wilson había esperado en una cola llena de pelirrojos, fue entrevistado y fue el único candidato contratado, porque ninguno de los demás candidatos tenía un pelo tan rojo como el de Wilson.