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'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound'. The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes. As rumours of a legendary hound said to haunt the Baskerville family circulate, Holmes and Watson are asked to ensure the protection of Sir Charles' only heir, Sir Henry - who has travelled all the way from America to reside at Baskerville Hall in Devon. And it is there, in an isolated mansion surrounded by mile after mile of wild moor, that Holmes and Watson come face to face with a terrifying evil that reaches out from centuries past...

Los protagonistas de este libro son dos héroes de su tiempo (el escritor Arthur Conan Doyle y el ilusionista Harry Houdini) y narra uno de los capítulos más singulares e inquietantes del siglo veinte. Doyle, defensor a ultranza de la vida en el mas alla y de las supuestas revelaciones de los espiritus, ayudado por la fama deductiva y habilidad casi forense exhibida en los relatos de su archiconocido Sherlock Holmes, libro durante casi toda su vida una cruzada en defensa del mundo de lo oculto. Houdini entablo una encarnizada batalla contra Doyle y los espiritistas a la que dedicaria toda su vida. Con sus prodigiosas habilidades, se convirtio en la ruina y el descredito para un gran numero de mediums, al desenmascarar e incluso imitar publicamente sus trucos. Al mismo tiempo, la obra es un recorrido grafico por la sumamente hermosa y sugerente fotografia espiritista y por los albores del espiritismo.

You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend . When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl. Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong. But when Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson, aiding Miss Marston, attend the assignation, they embark on a dark and mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian, some hidden treasure, deadly poison darts and a thrilling race along the River Thames.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beetons Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincotts Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyles death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.This collection contains all the 60 official and the 6 unofficial Sherlock Holmes stories - in total 66 works (the biggest and greatest Sherlock Holmes collection in the eBook world)

Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6.30 this evening at 221B, Baker Street.Its the 27th of December and Sherlock Holmes has a new mystery to solve. Who is the unlucky owner of the festive goose dropped on Tottenham Court Road on Christmas morning and just how much do they know about the priceless gem hidden inside it?In this classic Christmas tale, Holmes and Watson take us on a riotous ride through London in search of the answer to a most singular and whimsical problem.

The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victims best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskervilles heir, Sir Henry, whos arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beetons Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincotts Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyles death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.This collection contains all the 60 official and the 6 unofficial Sherlock Holmes stories - in total 66 works (the biggest and greatest Sherlock Holmes collection in the eBook world)

Sir Charles Baskerville ha muerto en las afueras de su mansión del páramo y en unas horas llegará a Londres su heredero y sobrino sir Henry. Existe una leyenda familiar relacionada con un siniestro sabueso, por lo que el doctor Mortimer busca la ayuda del gran detective Sherlock Holmes y su fiel doctor Watson. Asi comienza El sabueso de los Baskerville, novela que constituye un clasico dentro de la obra de Arthur Conan Doyle y del genero policiaco, por la sagacidad y el poder de deduccion del mitico detective.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Un grupo de pacíficos y singulares turistas se ven sorprendidos en su excursión por el Nilo por una banda de integristas islámicos y son secuestrados. El grupo de cautivos es heterogéneo y, aunque menos, tambien lo son sus secuestradores. A partir de este hecho, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle elabora La tragedia del Korosko, una novela de aventuras que es maestra en su genero y que leida en el siglo XXI adquiere unos sorprendentes tintes premonitorios de los peligros que acechan a los turistas occidentales que se adentran en zonas remotas del Oriente medio. El itinerario que describe Conan Doyle es ademas de descriptivo, informativo, los elementos historicos estan presentes. El paisaje se incorpora en el relato con corporeidad, su belleza impresiona, pesa; las noches estrelladas del desierto pueden ser opresoras o bien esperanzadoras, y los personajes forman parte de la esplendida galeria doyleniana, en la que si en la sala principal tenemos a Sherlock Holmes y Watson, en las adyacentes debemos incorporar, haciendo compañia a los profesores Challenger y Maracot, a los pasajeros del Korosko, que conforman un mosaico de personalidades arquetipicas de los paises de origen de los secuestrados; la caprichosa norteamericana Sadie Adams, el veterano coronel Cochrane, el tocanarices de Monsieur Fardet, los irlandeses Sres. Belmont...

El estrambótico, arrollador e hilarante profesor George Edward Challenger, «un cerebro superdotado en un cuerpo de hombre de las cavernas», decide emprender una expedición a la desconocida tierra de