Arthur Doyle: 1917 books

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.’ Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was the first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories Conan Doyle published in book form, following the popular success of the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, which introduced the characters of Dr. John Watson and the austere analytical detective...

Introduction by Laurie R. King   The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on...

In The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes and Watson come to the aid of Helen Stoner, who has reason to fear her life is being threatened by her abusive stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Her sister, who died two years before, spoke of a “speckled band” right before she died in mysterious...

In The Great Shadow And Other Napoleonic Tales published 1892 Doyle deals with the conquests and war tactics of General Napoleon who changed the history and map of the world. The Great Shadow is that cast by Napoleon over the whole of Europe. The collection includes such tales as The Crime of the Brigadier...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws"...

Doyle's The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911) is a unique mystery novel. Dr. Watson finds himself entrapped in the midst of a crime scene and is utterly helpless until the arrival of Holmes. But even Holmes is not able to solve the mystery smoothly. With last minute escapes and hair splitting...

What would the genre of detective fiction be without the inimitable Sherlock Holmes? One can only speculate as to its state given the absence of its most famous character. Based on Doyle’s own list of best stories and expanded to include several other reader favorites, this collection includes his...

From the pen of the creator of Sherlock Holmes this is another collection of thrilling adventures. Revolving around themes such as murder mystery unsolved crimes and ghosts the work depicts Doyle's interest in the super-natural which lets the readers experience extreme exhilaration. Spine-chilling!

Un 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 luego de su participación en la guerra de Afganistán. Watson y Holmes se mudan al famoso 221B Baker Street, donde Watson se enfrenta a las...

En "El valle del Terror", una de las mejores narraciones del genial Conan Doyle, John Douglas, un caballero americano que vive en Inglaterra, es violentamente asesinado en su mansión, una fortaleza aparentemente infranqueable.

Aquí en Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes se nos narran, con ritmo más ágil y estilo más directo que en las primeras novelas, doce historias, doce casos detectivescos, conmovedores unos, trágicos otros, cómicos varios, pero todos rebosantes de ingenio, todos...

Los temas de estas doce nuevas aventuras, recopiladas bajo el título de La memorias de Sherlock Holmes en 1894 son variados: "La Gloria Scott", "El jorobado" y "El paciente interno" tratan de dilucidar crímenes ocurridos en el pasado; El tratado naval es una historia...

Tras la publicación en esta misma colección de El perro de los Baskerville, con ilustraciones de Javier Olivares, seguimos con nuestro propósito de publicar todas las novelas de Conan Doyle que tienen como protagonistas al detective más famoso de todos los tiempos, Sherlock Holmes, y a su inseparable...