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Conan Doyle, que había ganado una fortuna con sus criaturas de papel, acabó dedicándola a sus entrevistas con los espíritus del aire. El país de la bruma, último libro de la serie del profesor Challenger, es casi un minucioso retablo de las creencias y practicas espiritistas, en las que el autor acabo creyendo a pies juntillas, en su afan por superar la perdida de sus seres mas queridos. Tambien Challenger lo hizo, tras una extraordinaria aventura, que le deparo vislumbrar un futuro sin los limites del estrecho horizonte de la muerte, inmenso, lleno de posibilidades y creaciones infinitas gracias a la conciencia de la supervivencia de la personalidad, el caracter y el trabajo.

Con A Inquilina do Veo chegamos ao oitavo título de Sherlock Holmes para pequenos detectives, unha colección amena e divertida cos mellores casos do detective máis famoso de todos os tempos. Grazas á sua narrativa axil e as rechamantes ilustracions axudara a consolidar o amor pola lectura dos mais novos. Ademais, as didacticas aclaracions sobre termos e obxectos propios da Inglaterra da epoca achegaraos a literatura clasica de detectives.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.

'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'. Sherlock Holmes' fearless chronicler Dr Watson once again opens his notebooks to bring to light eight further tales of some of the strangest and most fascinating cases to come before the enquiring mind of London's most famous detective. These mysteries involve the disappearance of secret plans as well as of a lady of noble standing; the curious circumstances of Wisteria Lodge and of the Devil's Foot; as well as the story His Last Bow, the last outing of Holmes and Watson on the eve of the First World War.

'Holmes', I cried'. Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?' Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city. Among thirteen further brilliant tales of mystery, detection and deduction, Sherlock Holmes investigates the problem of the Norwood Builder, deciphers the message of the Dancing Men, and cracks the case of the Six Napoleons.

There s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it . From the moment Dr John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet , Holmes and Watson s first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.

All four of Arthur Conan Doyle''s legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda. In 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historical romances, which required the utmost care, this could be dashed off quickly. The first draft, featuring a Mr. Sherrinford Holmes, was a bit rough around the edges, but with a little revision, something astonishing emerged: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and A Study in Scarlet. As if with no warning, they sprung forth from their creator''s head, fully-formed in a new style so well-defined it felt immediately like an established genre. Their partnership cemented within pages of the book''s opening-the sum of their parts accomplishing far more than they could apart. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivated readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, while Watson remained ever the perfect foil, a classic Victorian gentleman with brilliant intellect. Collected here are all four Holmes novels - A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear-tracing the origins of the pair up through their greatest showdowns with arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. Set in the seductive shadow-world of Victorian London, they are at once an indelible portrait of their time and immortal stories unmarred by passing time. Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented and imitated, they have never been surpassed: the stories of Holmes and Watson lives on as immediate and original in our time as in their own.

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As well as various tales of escapades in Egypt, London and the far-flung regions of northern Scotland, he included stories which deal with a subject that, as a physician himself, he had a unique perspective on: the medical profession. London surgeons and country doctors, male and female, are described as they deal with business and sentimental issues and encounter incredible situations - both comic and tragic. Conan Doyle displays his dazzling storytelling talents while providing a fascinating glimpse into his profession and times.

Literary London map with locations of Sherlock Holmes Novels.A journey to the heart of Victorian London through words and places of literatures most famous detective consultant, Sherlock Holmes. Unfoldable chart of 70 x100 cm printed on high quality paper. Both maps contain 119 locations that will carry us to the four novels of the Sherlock Holmes canon: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear.The map includes a detailed description of each location as well as a listing, with brief explanations, with all the musical, bibliographical and press references that appear in the four novels. 4 "detective" tours. Includes ebooks and access to London Literary Digital Atlas.

On the unexplained is a brand new selection of Arthur Conan Doyles writings on all things supernatural taken from Edge of the Unknown. Best known for the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle had many more strings to his bow. On the unexplained contains accounts of seances, automatic writing, trips to haunted country houses, passages on his incredible relationship with Houdini and in-depth philosophical analysis of the thinking behind the supernatural recorded by the author. As well as creating one of the most famous and recognisable fictional detectives of our time, Conan Doyle was a political campaigner (most memorably in his defence of the Boer War); he believed in the existence of fairies; he played amateur sleuth, taking up closed cases to prove miscarriage of justice. Perhaps most intriguing of all though was the fact that, following the deaths of a number of his family, Conan Doyle began to take an interest in what was then termed spiritualism (trying to prove the existence of life beyond the grave), he became a member of the paranormal association The Ghost Sense Club and he also joined the British Society of Psychical Research. This latest book in Hesperuss On series is a must have for the Conan Doyle enthusiast or the intrigued reader alike.

Tiene entre sus manos la publicación más importante del detective en cuatro décadas, editada por una de las autoridades sherlockianas más destacadas del mundo, Leslie S. Klinger –un libro que atraerá

Chevalier sans terre et sans nom, Dunk a choisi la voie de l'errance. Lui et son écuyer, un certain Aegon Targaryen, qui cache son illustre ascendance sous le sobriquet de l'Oeuf, louent leur épée aux causes les plus justes au hasard de leurs peregrinations. Leurs pas les conduisent cette fois aux noces de Lord Beurpuits, ou doit avoir lieu un tournoi rassemblant la fine fleur de la chevalerie, et dont le vainqueur se verra attribuer un trophee sans prix : un oeuf de dragon ! Mais les des sont pipes, et les deux hommes vont se retrouver malgre eux au coeur d'une conspiration visant les plus hautes instances du royaume.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Featuring crypts at midnight, strange bones in a furnace and a blood-sucking vampire, these tales explore the darker side of human nature and involve betrayal, violence and the terrible consequences of infidelity. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies - a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and an authority on Sherlock Holmes. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.