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Set at the end of the seventeenth century in Paris and the New World.

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction--Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, "the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended" and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. "Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard--and in...

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Sir Arthur Doyle is best known for his famous detective stories, specifically the character of Sherlock Holmes. The /dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates shows Doyle's range as this is a wonderful collection of pirate stories. Absolutely a great read... A true mater of storytelling...

A collection of short stories, by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, including the future war story "Danger!" and the science fiction tale "The Horror from the Heights, " "The Fall of Lord Barrymore, " "The Prisoner's Defence, " and "The Surgeon of Gaster Fall." The title story covers 49 pages and was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of The First World War, the author's intention being "to direct public attention to the great dan...

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Brings together 8 Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics. According to A Catalogue of Crime, ." . . one marvels again at Doyle's natural gift of story-telling.

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and san...

This is a non-fiction exposé of Belgian crimes and atrocities in the Congo, written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. From the preface: "Never before has there been such a mixture of wholesale expropriation and wholesale massacre all done under an odious guise of philanthropy and with the lowest commercial motives as a reason. It is this sordid case and the unctuous hypocrisy which makes this crime unparalleled in its horror." A damning indic...

Esta novela de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, es sin duda la más notable y acabada de cuantas componen el ciclo del más célebre de los personajes creados por este autor, el detective Sherlock Holmes. El detective y su fiel amigo y cronista, el doctor John Watson, se trasladan a la región desolada de los páramos de Dartmoor, en el oeste de Inglaterra, donde han de enfrentarse a un perro espectral que persigue a los miembros de una antigua familia. She...

Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex.This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing.It was upon Friday, the twenty-seventh of August -- a date forever memorable in the history of the world. . . . It is imperative that now at once, while these...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Los hechos del caso son sencillos. Sir Charles tenía la costumbre de pasear al atardecer, antes de irse a dormir, por la famosa avenida de los tejos de Baskerville (). El día 4 de junio, Sir Charles había declarado su intención de irse a Londres al día siguiente y había pedido a Barrymore que le preparase el equipaje. Aquella tarde salió a dar su paseo nocturno habitual, durante el cual acostumbraba a fumar un cigarrillo. Ya no regresó.

Includes "The Captain of the 'Polestar', " "F. Habakuk Jephson's Statement, " "The Great Keinplatz Experiment, " "The Man from Archangel, " "That Little Square Box, " "John Huxford's Hiatus, " "Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic, " "John Barrington Cowles, " "Elias B. Hopkins, The Parson of Jackman's Gulch, " and "The Ring of Thoth.

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Eleven adventures from the crowded life of Sherlock Holmes, including 'The Final Problem', with which the author intended to close the career of his famous detective. But Holmes was a match for his creator, and 12 more stories follow in 'The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'. (Kirkus UK)

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