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"Estudio en escarlata" es la primera historia del legendario detective Sherlock Holmes y de su amigo, el doctor Watson, un cirujano militar que regresa a Londres tras su participación en la guerra. Watson y Holmes se mudan al famoso número 221B de Baker Street, donde Watson se enfrenta a las excentricidades de Holmes y a su mágica habilidad para la deducción.

Mr. Trevor Bennet kontaktiert den Meisterdetektiv, um ihm von dem seltsamen Verhalten seines Schwiegervaters, des angesehenen Professor Presbury, zu berichten. Dieser wird immer exzentrischer, sein Verhalten immer weniger verständlich. So erwischt man ihn dabei, wie er auf Bäume klettert oder geduckt durch Gänge schleicht. Selbst der Hund des Hauses spürt, dass etwas nicht stimmt.

1. Un scandale en Bohême 2. La ligue des rouquins 3. Une affaire d'identité 4. Le mystère de Val Boscombe 5. Les cinq pépins d'orange 6. L'homme à la lèvre tordue 7. L'escarboucle bleue 8. Le ruban moucheté 9. Le pouce de l'ingénieur 10. Un aristocrate célibataire 11. Le diadème de Béryls 12. Les hêtres rouges 13. Flamme d'Argent 14. La figure jaune 15. L'employé de l'agent de change 16. Le Gloria Scott 17. Le rituel des Musgrave.

In "The Hound of the Baskervilles," Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson search for the perpetrators of murders in the Baskerville family. Methodically, they track the fearsome beast and the cold-blooded murderer, exposing themselves to chilling dangers on the Grimpen Mire marshes.

This is the second book of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning the adventures of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his side kick Dr Watson. It contains 12 stories published in The Strand as further episodes of the Adventures between December 1892 and December 1893.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgAll Librivox recordings are in the public domain

Tras la desaparición de su padre, Mary Morstan recibe una extraña carta de alguien que le podría informar sobre el paradero del mismo. El desconocido remitente quiere reunirse con Mary, por lo que la joven acude a Sherlock Holmes, especialista en asuntos extraños. El desconocido resulta ser Thaddeus Sholto, hijo de un buen amigo del padre de Mary. Thaddeus contactó con Mary porque ha encontrado un tesoro en la casa familia; ahora todo lo que tienen que hacer es ir allí y dividirlo.

Mästerdetektiven Sherlock Holmes är tillbaka i en samling spännande berättelser som utspelar sig från Dartmoor i England till Reichenbachfallen i Schweiz. Här får vi bland annat följa fallet med den försvunna kapplöpningshästen och dess avlidne tränare, just som prestigefyllda Wessex Cup står för dörren. Holmes berättar även för sin följeslagare Watson om sina mest minnesvärda fall från tiden innan de båda träffades. Och sist men inte minst skildras hans möte med ärkefienden professor Moriarty – i en bokstavlig kamp på liv och död.

"Wenn man das Unmögliche ausgeschlossen hat, muss das, was übrig bleibt, die Wahrheit sein, so unwahrscheinlich sie auch klingen mag." Sherlock Holmes ist der berühmteste Detektiv aller Zeiten. Mit seinem Freund und Assistenten Dr. Watson geht er im viktorianischen London auf Verbrecherjagd. 55 spannende Fälle werden in dieser Box vereint und laden dazu ein, das berühmte wie auch clevere Ermittlerduo durch die dunklen Gassen Londons zu begleiten.

Five new pastiche stories of the world's greatest detective. These stories are shorter than the other novellas in the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries set and were published earlier in either the MX Books or Belanger Books anthologies of Sherlock Holmes stories (Edited by David Marcum). 'The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee' is one of the unpublished cases we hear about in The Canon. The story Takes Holmes and Watson to the tropical island of Ceylon on behalf of the Foreign Office to investigate the murder of one of the Atkinson brothers.

Sherlock Holmes meets his most impressive adversary yet: criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Holmes has been tracking Moriarty for months, determined to bring him to justice. Yet Moriarty is as determined to bring about the downfall of Holmes. Their battle to defeat each other ends up in Switzerland - and on the brink of a cliff overlooking a perilously high and powerful waterfall.

Das Zeichen der Vier ist der zweite Sherlock-Holmes-Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Er erschien zuerst 1890 in der Februar-Ausgabe von Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine unter dem Titel The Sign of the Four und wurde noch im selben Jahr von Spencer Blackett unter dem Titel The Sign of Four als Buch veröffentlicht. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Miss Mary Morstan beauftragt, bei der Suche nach ihrem verschollenen Vater zu helfen. Dieser war Offizier in Indien und verschwand vor zehn Jahren bei seiner Rückkehr nach England.

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often.

Sherlock Holmes visits his friend Victor out in the Norfolk countryside. There, he meets his friend’s wealthy father, Mr Trevor - and soon finds out that the old man has plenty to hide.... Murder, embezzlement and violence at sea come together into a classic tale of double-crossing and subterfuge.

Sherlock Holmes liegt im Sterben. Eine unheimliche Krankheit scheint dem Meisterdetektiv seiner Lebenskräfte zu berauben. Dr. Watson muss machtlos mit ansehen, wie sein Freund immer mehr verfällt, denn die fremdartige Krankheit übersteigt auch sein medizinisches Wissen. Holmes nennt im Delirium den Namen Culverton Smith. Kann er Holmes das Leben retten?

古老的巴斯克维尔家族一直被猎犬的诅咒所困扰。所有家族的继承人，都生活在会被猎犬咬死的阴影下。一天早上，巴斯克维尔庄园的管家发现庄园的主人查尔兹·巴斯克维尔爵士死在他经常散步的水松夹道旁…… 古老的巴斯克維爾家族一直被獵犬的詛咒所困擾。所有家族的繼承人，都生活在會被獵犬咬死的陰影下。一天早上，巴斯克維爾莊園的管家發現莊園的主人查爾茲·巴斯克維爾爵士死在他經常散步的水松夾道旁……

A wonderful collection of classic thrillers, mystery stories, crime tales and weird accounts of uncanny events.1. Query by “Seamark” 2. The Furnished Room by O. Henry 3.The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome 4. The Squaw by Bram Stoker 5. The 19 Club by A. J. Alan 6. The Interruption by W. W. Jacobs7. Laura by Saki 8. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe 9. The Diver by A. J. Alan10. The Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace11. The Burglary by Arnold Bennett

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances, his nephew and heir Sir Henry returns from South Africa. In the meanwhile, Dr. Mortimer, the local doctor, is concerned about Sir Henry's safety, so he consults Sherlock Holmes and recounts the tale of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who several generations previously, had been killed by a huge hound and which now is believed to be a curse on the family.

The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the Victorian era, from the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes, to the mild mannered Father Brown, to the feisty J. G. Reeder.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles.