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1) The Best of Sherlock Holmes, Volume I: A Study in Scarlet, the Sign of the Four and the Adventures
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Presented here are the first three books of the Sherlock Holmes canon: the novels "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" and the first collection of short stories, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," all written by Holmes' legendary creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the alkali plains of Utah to the battlefields of colonial India and back to the confines of 221B Baker Street in London, the stories in this collection are among...
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When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practice I found that I had engaged myself in a serious task...
In 1927, Strand magazine challenged its readers to guess which of his Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle himself rated as his very best. (Mr R. T. Newman of Spring Hill, Wellingborough,...
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"The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919 and was collected later in “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale....
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No child is too young to appreciate the amazing deductive powers of the worlds smartest detective. These easy-to-read Sherlock Holmes stories provide the perfect introduction to the super sleuth and his friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. Among the intriguing tales: "A Scandal in Bohemia," Holmess first encounter with the mysterious Irene Adler, "The Red-Headed League", "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" and others.
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DAS TAL DER ANGST beginnt mit einem rätselhaften Mord im Herzen Londons, der Holmes' unvergleichliche Fähigkeiten herausfordert. Die Auflösung des Falls führt ihn zusammen mit seinem treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson jedoch in die abgelegenen Berglandschaften eines gefährlichen Tals in Amerika.
Holmes und Watson sehen sich mit einem mysteriösen Verbrechen konfrontiert, das nicht nur Verbindungen zu einer mysteriösen Geheimorganisation aufweist,...
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EINE STUDIE IN SCHARLACHROT spielt im viktorianischen London, wo der brillante Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und sein Mitbewohner Dr. John Watson ihre erste gemeinsame Ermittlung beginnen. Am Anfang steht ein scheinbar einfacher Mord, doch schnell entspinnt sich ein komplexes Netz von Geheimnissen und Intrigen.
Während Holmes mit genialen Deduktionen beeindruckt, offenbart sich eine Geschichte von Rache, Liebe und (nahezu) unerklärlichen Verbindungen....
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DAS ZEICHEN DER VIER entführt seine Hörer:innen erneut in das viktorianische London, wo Holmes und Watson in einen neuen Fall verwickelt werden. Die Geschichte beginnt mit der geheimnisvollen Mary Morstan, die sich an die beiden wendet, um das rätselhafte Verschwinden ihres Vaters zu klären. Die Ermittlungen führen das ungleiche Duo durch düstere Straßen, an exotische Schauplätze und auf die Spur eines geheimnisvollen Schatzes.
Während sich...
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DER HUND DER BASKERVILLES führt den legendären Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. John Watson in die nebligen Moorlandschaften von Dartmoor. Sir Charles Baskerville ist unter mysteriösen Umständen gestorben und der übernatürliche Fluch, der auf seiner Familie lastet, scheint wieder zum Leben erwacht zu sein.
Holmes und Watson werden beauftragt, den Tod von Sir Charles zu untersuchen und das Rätsel um den geheimnisvollen...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique Lost World collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Abraham Merritt:
The Moon Pool
The Metal Monster
The People of the Pit
Arthur Conan Doyle:
The Lost World
Jules Verne:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
The Mysterious Island
Edward Bulwer-Lytton:
The Coming Race
George MacDonald:
Lilith
H. Rider...
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"The Sign of the Four" is the thrilling follow-up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's premiere novel, "A Study in Scarlet" in which he introduced the world's first consulting detective, the legendary and brilliant Sherlock Holmes.
In this tale, young Mary Marston seeks out Holmes' assistance in unraveling a strange mystery: ten years earlier, her father - a Captain in the army - went missing after arriving back in London after a long overseas posting....
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"The Dealings of Captain Sharkey" is a collection of adventure stories by an English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Captain Sharkey is the terror of the Caribbean Sea. His ship called "Happy Delivery" keeps ranging the vast of waters and attacking the defenceless galleons. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became a world-famous writer due to his novels "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Sign of the Four", "The Speckled Band", "A Scandal in Bohemia",...
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Presented here are the first three books of the Sherlock Holmes canon: the novels "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" and the first collection of short stories, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," all written by Holmes' legendary creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the alkali plains of Utah to the battlefields of colonial India and back to the confines of 221B Baker Street in London, the stories in this collection are among...
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In the first adventure, that of Charles Agustus Milverton, Homes has to deal with the most loathsome man he has ever known and actually invite him to his flat to negotiate no matter how repulsive this is to holmes' feelings. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers"....
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. LA LIGA DE LOS PELIRROJOS relato corto de la serie; Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, escrita por el autor Arthur Conan Doyle quien lo calificó como el segundo en la lista de sus doce historias favoritas de Holmes. Fue publicado originalmente en la revista The Strand Magazine en 1891. Un prestamista londinense llamado Jabez Wilson, un hombre de pelo muy rojo acude a Sherlock Holmes y Watson para resolver el misterio...
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Table of contents:
Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Field Bazaar
How Watson Learned the Trick
Professor Challenger
The Lost World
The Poison Belt
When the World Screamed
Brigadier Gerard
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
The Crime of the Brigadier
The Adventures of Gerard
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These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.