Showing results by author "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"

Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over 30 of Conan Doyle's best Gothic tales

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. 

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. 

A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes mystery, introducing Sir Arthur Conan's Doyle's iconic sleuth and his sidekick, Watson.

Four demanding, even life-threatening adventures for the much loved amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes, who, with faithful Watson by his side, has earned his place in our national life and social history. This collection of short stories, taken from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, sees Baker Street's most famous resident investigating a mysterious maritime murder, a tragic crime of passion, a surprising elopement, and the unexpected windfall promised to a reclusive collector.

With his tongue unobtrusively tucked in his cheek, Doyle assists an imaginary French Brigadier in recalling his deeds of valor and gallantry while a young officer in Napoleon's army. Swords are brandished, villains are vanquished, and beautiful ladies swoon when Brigadier Gerard comes to town! 

The Bruce-Partington plans will revolutionise submarine warfare in a way that will make England untouchable. When the plans go missing and the man who stole them turns up dead, the government is in an uproar. Only one man can unravel the mystery, and that man is Sherlock Holmes. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this Conan Doyle classic.

This ghostly, sometimes ghastly, collection includes "The Buckled Bag" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, "The Tapestried Room" or "The Lady in the Saque" by Sir Walter Scott, "The New Catacomb" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and "The Lost Ghost" by Mary Wilkins Freeman.

Six more classic mysteries solved by Sherlock Holmes, including "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".

"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott", by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime.

Der Börsenmakler Hall Pycroft ist seit Monaten arbeitslos. Plötzlich erhält er an einem Tag gleich zwei lukrative Stellenangebote...

Die mysteriösen Todesumstände Colonel James Barclays rufen Holmes und Watson auf den Plan. Mrs. Barclay, die zum Todeszeitpunkt...

Der wohlhabende und offenbar von Verfolgungswahn geplagte Mr. Blessington konfrontiert seinen behandelnden Hausarzt...

Im Wald von Boscombe Valley wird die Leiche von Charles McCarthy gefunden. Er ist mit einem stumpfen Gegenstand ermordet worden...

Sir Eustace Brackenstall wurde auf seinem Anwesen Abbey Grange erschlagen. Für Inspektor Lestrade stehen die Täter sofort fest...

Hören Sie die vier Sherlock-Holmes-Hörspiele: Die Thor Brücke, Der goldene Kneifer, Abbey Grange, Das Rätsel von Boscombe Valley...

Hören Sie die vier Sherlock-Holmes-Hörspiele: Die Pappschachtel, Die Bruce-Partington-Pläne, Das Verschwinden der Lady Carfax, Die Löwenmähne...

Mit Professor Moriarty hat Conan Doyle seinem Helden Sherlock Holmes einen ebenbürtigen Gegner gegenüber gestellt...

Holmes, der im Frühling des Jahres 1887 einen Schwächeanfall erleidet, ist eigentlich dazu angehalten, sich auszuruhen...

Percy Phelps, ein alter Schulkamerad Watsons, arbeitet seit langem für die britische Regierung. Als dem pflichtbewussten Mann eines Nachts...