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Cuando sir Arthur Conan Doyle convirtió en personaje popular su Sherlock Holmes, el público incondicional, habituado a leer novelas por entregas en los periódicos y revistas, demandó vorazmente nuevas historias ingeniosas y divertidas. Su autor, que sin duda prefería el relato corto a la...

Tras unos años en que Arthur Conan Doyle había decidido dejar descansar a su personaje de Sherlock Holmes, tal era el abrumador éxito que este había alcanzado, el escritor decidió volver a recrear uno de sus casos más famosos, relatado según los recuerdos del fiel doctor Watson. Holmes se...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

El misterio del valle Boscombe es uno de los 56 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fue publicado originalmente en The Strand Magazine y posteriormente recogido en la colección Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. Comienza este relato cuando Watson recibe un telegrama de Sherlock Holmes, mientras desayuna apaciblemente con la señora Watson. El texto dice: "¿Tiene usted un par de días libres? Acabo de recibir un telegrama del oeste de Inglaterra en relación con la tragedia del valle de Boscombe.

Como toda historia comienza con un misterio, aquí el Doctor Watson, relata con sutileza la forma en que la reunión se desarrolla. Sherlock Holmes es llamado por un caballero enmascarado. Se presenta como el conde Von Kramm, un agente de un cliente adinerado, pero Holmes deduce rápidamente que se trata de Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, gran duque de Cassel-Felstein y rey hereditario de Bohemia. El rey, arrancándose la máscara, lo admite.

Tras la desaparición de su padre en circunstancias poco claras, la señorita Mary Morstan empieza a recibir perlas de alguien cuya identidad desconoce y que le ha citado para reunirse con ella. Mary recurre a Sherlock Holmes, quien acepta desentrañar el caso y, junto con Watson, acudir como...

Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a series of daring adventures. Priceless jewels disappear from a hotel suite, a monstrous hound is spotted on the moors and a woman is murdered in a locked room. Can our brilliant hero solve these mysteries and more before disaster strikes? This thrilling collection brings 16 adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective to life, adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf.

Un caso de identidad (título original: A Case of Identity) es uno de los 56 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fue publicado originalmente en The Strand Magazine y posteriormente recogido en la colección Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. Ambientada en 1888, la historia gira en torno al caso de la señora Mary Sutherland, una mujer con grandes ingresos gracias a los intereses de un fondo creado para ella. Su prometido, un silencioso londinense, ha desaparecido recientemente.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her sex. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her.

The classic adventure that inspired Jurassic Park —now with an original prequel novella that tells the untold story of the man who discovered the lost world. Before Professor Challenger. Before the expedition. There was Maple White. In 1897, an American artist ventured into the Amazon jungle seeking something to paint. What he found was impossible: a hidden plateau where prehistoric creatures still lived, where pterodactyls soared above ancient forests, and where dinosaurs drank from primeval lakes. He was the first human to witness this lost world. He would also be the last to leave it alive.

The Adventure of Silver Blaze, published in 1892, is a classic Sherlock Holmes short story set on the bleak Dartmoor countryside. Just days before a major race, the celebrated racehorse Silver Blaze vanishes from his stable, and the horse's trainer is found dead nearby with a strange wound to the head. Holmes and Watson travel to the scene, where Scotland Yard is already investigating a local bookmaker as the chief suspect.

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is a short story published in 1893 in which Sherlock Holmes recounts one of his earliest cases to Watson. Reginald Musgrave, an old university acquaintance, consults Holmes after his clever but arrogant butler, Brunton, vanishes from the ancestral estate following an incident involving an ancient family document known as the Musgrave Ritual. The ritual itself is a cryptic series of questions and answers that has been passed down through generations of Musgraves without anyone understanding its meaning.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in 1902, is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes novels. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances on the desolate Devonshire moor, with enormous paw prints found near his body, the family physician turns to Holmes for help, citing an ancient legend of a demonic hound that haunts the Baskerville line. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to accompany the new heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, to the ancestral hall while he continues his own inquiries.

A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, introduces Dr. John Watson, a wounded army doctor who returns to London and takes lodgings with the eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street. When a man is found murdered in an empty house with the German word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall, Scotland Yard is baffled and turns to Holmes.

Third collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories read by Edward Hardwicke, who played Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada TV's popular series broadcast in the early 1990s. The Sussex Vampire tells the story of a beautiful woman caught drinking her baby's blood and assaulting...

Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by Edward Hardwicke, who has become the definitive Dr. Watson of the 80s and 90s due to the spectacularly successful Granada television series in which he appears with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes...

Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by Edward Hardwicke, who has become the definitive Dr. Watson of the 80s and 90s due to the spectacularly successful Granada television series in which he appears with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes...

Este relato narra un extraño caso de ambición desmedida, en el que se ve involucrado un pobre personaje, por el mero hecho de ser intérprete griego. Una bella y adinerada joven griega cae en las redes de un malvado desaprensivo, que raptará al hermano de la joven para lograr hacerse con el dinero de la familia.

Omuleții dansatori este una dintre cele mai celebre povestiri din volumul „Întoarcerea lui Sherlock Holmes” de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hilton Cubitt, un gentleman respectabil, îi cere ajutorul lui Sherlock Holmes după ce soția sa începe să fie terorizată de mesaje misterioase...

În „Traducătorul de greacă”, Sherlock Holmes este implicat într-un caz neobișnuit după ce un interpret de limba greacă povestește o întâlnire misterioasă cu doi bărbați și un prizonier care nu vorbește engleza. Indiciile descoperite îl conduc pe celebrul detectiv într-o...