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En vacances dans les Cornouailles, Sherlock Holmes est néanmoins amené à élucider les circonstances d'un drame particulièrement étrange : ayant quitté sa sœur et ses deux frères la veille au soir à l'issue d'une partie de cartes, Mortimer Tregennis les a retrouvés le lendemain à la même place autour de la table. Sa sœur est morte et ses frères sont devenus fous.

Flamme d'argent est un cheval de course d'exception, appartenant au colonel Ross. Or, à la veille d'une importante course, le cheval disparait et son entraineur, John Straker, est retrouvé mort à la suite d'un violent coup à la tête. Tout accuse Fitzroy Simpson, le valet d'écurie, de ce meurtre et ce dernier n'a aucun alibi.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The best of the Holmes novels!

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

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 ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl.

Alors que le Docteur Watson attend l'arrivée d'éventuels clients dans son nouveau cabinet médical, Sherlock Holmes vient lui rendre visite et lui propose de l'emmener jusqu'à Birmingham afin de résoudre une nouvelle affaire s'annonçant particulièrement intéressante. Watson, heureux qu'une nouvelle enquête vienne égayer son quotidien, n'hésite pas à fermer son cabinet pour le reste de l'après-midi et suit son ami détective.

Further adventures by the master of observation and deduction, as faithfully recounted by his companion and greatest admirer, Dr Watson. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax and The Adventure of the Dying Detective are among the stories. David Timson's award-winning performances continue with this series.

Sherlock Holmes envoie le Docteur Watson, son fidèle ami, à Lausanne à la recherche de Lady Frances Carfax, une femme ayant disparu après la visite d'un ténébreux personnage.

Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team, the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson, as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. The collection includes one of the author's personal favorites: A Scandal in Bohemia, in which a king is blackmailed by a former lover and Holmes matches wits with the only woman to attract his open admiration.

Sir Charles Baskervillen kuollessa yllättäen sydänkohtaukseen alkaa kylässä kiertää huhu kuoleman aiheuttaneesta, perhettä mahdollisesti jo sukupolvien ajan vainonneesta yliluonnollisesta jättiläiskoirasta. Kun suvun perillinen Sir Henry Baskerville saapuu Kanadasta Englannin Dartmoorin pimeille ja sumuisille nummille vastaanottamaan perintöään, kutsutaan tapausta tutkimaan skeptinen Sherlock Holmes.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, 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. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson's shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor's house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.

In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide listeners with the thrill of the chase. These mysteries - involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lion's Mane; a creeping man and the three-gabled house - all test the bravery of Dr Watson and the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes, the greatest detective we have ever known.

The History of Spiritualism – Arthur Conan Doyle. This vintage work contains a comprehensive treatise on the history of spiritualism, being a narrative which covers in a way the whole history of the Spiritualistic movement.

We are all driven by needs, desires, ambitions and many other forces. Life runs as normal with the obligatory ups and downs. In this volume such literary leviathans as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others provide tales from pens that seep with wisdom and worry.

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft.

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes". Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque".

DES MEURTRES IMPOSSIBLES ! 9 nouvelles ou courts romans célèbres, mettant en scène des meurtres commis dans des lieux hermétiquement fermés. 9 énigmes qui sont autant de défis aux capacités de déduction et d'imagination de l'audiolecteur.

Sherlock Holmes est une des plus grandes figures de la culture populaire et son seul nom est synonyme de mystère policier, de brouillard londonien et de crimes énigmatiques. Ces enquêtes sont rapportées par son ami, le docteur Watson. "Les exploits de Sherlock Holmes" ont été traduits dans le monde entier, ils ont été adaptés de multiples fois au théâtre, à la télévision, en BD et au cinéma.

In October 1916, Conan Doyle announced in the journal light his conversion to spiritualism. During the last years of his life, he became the crusader of this movement that preaches salvation of humanity through science. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures about spiritualism in Australia, in USA, and in Canada. He published his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, in 1924 and opened a bookstore dedicated to spiritualism, The Psychic Bookshop in London, where he handled the editing of his own works.

Un code énigmatique est trouvé chez lui par M. Hilton Cubitt. En effet, une série de pictogrammes représentant des hommes dansants ont été tracés à la craie en différents lieux de sa propriété du Norfolk. Peu de temps après, M. Cubitt et sa femme sont retrouvés morts par balles. Quel est la clé de cet étrange mystère ? Sherlock Holmes déchiffrera-t-il ce code ? Qui a bien pu vouloir la mort de ce couple sans histoires ?