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El episodio tuvo lugar en Yoxley Old Place, en Kent, a catorce kilómetros de Chatham. La casa alquilada por el profesor Coram era un remanso de paz, donde el profesor se dedicaba a trabajar con la sola compañía del servicio y de su joven secretario, el malogrado Willoughby Smith. De pronto, un día, tras oír "un alarido desatinado y bronco", la doncella encuentra al secretario agonizando. Solamente existen dos pistas: la frase de Willoughby antes de morir "El profesor...; fue ella", y las gafas de oro que aferraba en su mano.

A tired and battle scarred surgeon returns to London after being wounded in the third Afghan war. After his money starts to run low, a chance encounter leads him to take a flat with an eccentric man at 221B Baker Street. Thus begins the famous crime-solving partnership of the Holmes and Watson duo.

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.

First published in 1890, The Sign of the Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has received a present of a rare and lustrous pearl. Now, on the day she is summoned to meet her anonymous benefactor, she consults Holmes and Watson. 

En 1899, un jeune médecin est appelé à l'aide par un lointain parent. Cet oncle, qui est un ancien chirurgien dans l'armée britannique aux Indes, dépérit peu à peu, victime de phénomènes terrifiants dont il refuse au début de parler. Il finit par avouer qu'il est visité chaque nuit par le fantôme d'un Hindou qui vient réclamer la main qu'il lui a coupée lors d'une opération médicale. Le jeune médecin a peut-être une idée pour mettre fin à cette étrange malédiction nocturne.

"Pour Sherlock Holmes, elle est toujours la femme. Il la juge tellement supérieure à tout son sexe, qu'il ne l'appelle presque jamais par son nom ; elle est et elle restera la femme. Aurait-il donc éprouvé à l'égard d'Irène Adler un sentiment voisin de l'amour ? Absolument pas ! Son esprit lucide, froid, admirablement équilibré répugnait à toute émotion en général et à celle de l'amour en particulier. Je tiens Sherlock Holmes pour la machine à observer et à raisonner la plus parfaite qui ait existé sur la planète ; amoureux, il n'aurait plus été le même."

The exciting tales of the legendary detective will surprise you as Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson find the cause of a mysterious death among gypsy tales and exotic animals as well as free an innocent young man accused of the death of his own father.

Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es un libro que recopila cuentos policíacos escritos por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle en donde el protagonista es su celebre detective privado "Sherlock Holmes". El libro original fue ilustrado por Sidney Paget. Aquí se cuentan las primeras aventuras de Sherlock Holmes.

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale---the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."

A la casa de Sherlock Holmes, llega una joven, la señorita Hunter, a pedirle que la aconseje sobre un trabajo de institutriz que le ofrecieron en una casa de familia. Él le sugiere no aceptarlo. Ella, no obstante, decide tomar el empleo, debido a la buena paga. El detective le manifiesta que por cualquier urgencia que se le presente, puede enviarle un telegrama y acudirá de inmediato. El telegrama llega. Holmes con su amigo Watson arriban al día siguiente a una posada donde los espera la joven.

La señorita Violet Smith es contratada como institutriz al amablemente viudo Sr. Carruthers en su casa de campo. Ella está inquieta por la presencia de un huésped grosero y aún más por un ciclista solitario que aparece de la nada para seguirla a lo largo de un camino solitario. Ella le pide a Holmes que investigue.

When John Openshaw receives a mysterious envelope containing five dried orange pips, he fears he has inherited more than his family estate. His uncle and father both received the same warning… and both died under sudden, unexplained circumstances soon after. Now the threat has come for him.

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.

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...

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.

Über manche Fälle wollte ich den Mantel des Schweigens fallen lassen, da man nicht mit genauer Gewissheit die Geschehnisse rational nachvollziehen konnte. Durch meinen verehrten Kollegen H. P. Lovecraft sah ich mich aber gezwungen, doch zumindest im kleinen Kreise Rechenschaft abzugeben und einen Bericht zu verfassen, der eine nüchternere Einschätzung der Ereignisse wiedergibt und sich nicht zu weit ins abenteuerlich Phantastische begibt.

Es war schon später Abend, als plötzlich ein wohlhabender, alter Mann den Weg in die Bakerstreet 221 b fand, und bei Holmes und Watson anklopfte, um ihnen einen neuen Auftrag zu erteilen. Es galt den gestohlenen Familienschatz zu finden und wiederzubeschaffen. Doch wer von den vier Familienmitgliedern und den fünf Dienstboten kam hierfür in Frage? Jedem Einzelnen konnte Holmes ein düsteres Geheimnis entlocken, doch die Frage nach dem Goldschatz blieb weiterhin ungeklärt.

In Blenheim Palace, dem größten Landsitz Englands und Residenz des siebten Duke of Marlborough herrscht Ratlosigkeit. Ein geheimnisvoller Vertrauter des Herzogs ist spurlos verschwunden. Die Begleitumstände werden bei näherer Betrachtung zunehmend rätselhafter. Der aufstrebende Inspektor Pittlewith wird hinzugezogen, um das Geheimnis zu lüften. Während alle Augen auf ihn gerichtet sind, und von ihm erwartet wird, wozu niemand sonst in der Lage zu sein scheint, ist sein letzter Trumpf sein junger, schmächtiger Assistent, Sherlock Holmes.