Résultats de "Arthur Conan Doyle" dans Toutes les catégories

Der blaue Karfunkel - ein berühmter Diamant von unschätzbarem Wert - findet sich seltsamerweise im Kropf einer Weihnachtsgans wieder. Doch wie gelangte er aus der Schmuckschatulle der Gräfin Morcar dorthin? Keine einfache Aufgabe für den berühmtesten Detektiv aller Zeiten, zumal sich einige der von ihm befragten Personen nicht als besonders auskunftsfreudig erweisen...

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved in this collection by this bloodhound of a genius.

L'histoire nous emmène dans une maison abandonnée des faubourgs de Londres où un crime très complexe vient d'être perpétré, et nous entraine bien loin de l'Angleterre, près de Grand Lac Salé, au pays des Mormons.

In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the horror of the speckled band or the secret behind the curious legacy for men of red hair? These and other puzzles are solved by this bloodhound of a genius.

"Elle ajouta quelques lots de remerciements pour Holmes, nous souhaita une bonne journée et nous quitta pour suivre sa destinée.

- Au moins ! dis-je tandis que nous prêtions l'oreille pour écouter son petit pas rapide, ferme, bien assuré qui descendait l'escalier, voilà une jeune femme qui a l'air de savoir se défendre toute seule.

The Blue Carbuncle is very different from all the other stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, because there is no client here. Sherlock Holmes accidentally stumbles upon a hat and a goose - and there - he's suddenly in the middle of a mind-blowing mystery!

Les relations entre Douglas Stone et la célèbre Lady Sannox étaient bien connues des cercles à la mode dont elle était un des ornements, ainsi que dans les milieux scientifiques qui le comptaient, lui, parmi leurs plus illustres confrères. C'est donc naturellement un intérêt très général qui accueillit un matin la nouvelle que la dame avait rigoureusement et définitivement pris le voile et que le monde ne la verrait plus.

En 1913, un aviateur qui cherche à monter de plus en plus haut découvre à trente mille pieds une sorte de jungle de l'altitude dont les créatures monstrueuses l'attaquent. Il manque en être victime, y retourne pour les affronter.

Le jeune Marshall King, fils cadet d'une famille de la haute société londonienne, est invité à se rendre quelques jours en villégiature dans la très belle propriété provinciale de son cousin, le richissime Edward King, de retour du Brésil où il a fait fortune. Marshall est quasiment ruiné et il espère beaucoup de cette rencontre avec ce cousin, son dernier espoir d'une vie meilleure. Mais il ne s'attendait sûrement pas à vivre ce qu'il va lui arriver, dans cette charmante propriété où tout se passe si étrangement.

From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock Holmes was presumed to be dead, having perished during the epic struggle with Professor Moriarty atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived. During those three years, he roamed the world, acting as an agent for the British government and using his very special skills along the way. In volume one of Holmes Away from Home, the incredible two-volume collection of new traditional Holmes adventures, we find our hero crisscrossing the world - Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the US.

These eerie tales include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Old House On Vauxhall Walk" by Charlotte Riddle, "Levison's Victim" by Mary Braddon, and "The Woman With the Yellow Hair" by Anonymous.

Seul le Pr Challenger est capable de trouver la réponse à la menace que fait peser sur l'humanité l'existence d'une telle machine...

This full-cast audio movie invites you to travel with Professor Challenger to a secluded South American plateau...deep in the Amazon jungle...where no civilized man dares to go...and where dinosaurs still roam! This is the original terrifying adventure tale, as spawned by the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the man who gave the world Sherlock Holmes.

Includes "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Redheaded League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often.

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.

The sequel to The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle's Poison Belt reunites the ever-popular Professor Challenger, intrepid journalist Edward Malone, dashing Lord John Roxton and the querulous Professor Summerlee for yet another adventure. When a sinister poison envelops the earth, the entire human race teeters on the brink of destruction, forcing the comrades to implement a desperate plan for survival.

Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings.

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished 10 years before. Four years later, she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.