Arthur Doyle: 1917 books

Adventure story Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

A selection of the most thrilling detective stories ever written by the master storyteller. Sherlock Holmes, the world’s cleverest detective, sets forth in this collection of six extraordinary stories to solve some of the most intriguing cases of his career. What was the mysterious ‘speckled...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...

These essays, upon different phases of the wonderful world-drama which has made our lifetime memorable, would be unworthy of republication were it not that at such a time every smallest thing which may help to clear up a doubt, to elucidate the justice of our cause, or to accentuate the desperate...

Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit, has guaranteed that he will place no impediment...

In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross–indexing his huge book...

The story entails the disappearance of Hatty, Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage. She participates in the wedding, but disappears from the reception. The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord St. Simon as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San...

Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife. Her husband has been absent for several days and, as he is an opium addict, she is sure he has been indulging in a lengthy drug binge in a dangerousEast End opium den. Frantic with worry, she seeks Dr. Watson's...

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Choisies parmi les enquêtes les plus remarquables de Sherlock Holmes par le fidèle Watson qui a été personnellement mêlé à la plupart d’entre elles, voici cinq «affaires» captivantes qui mettent en lumière les facultés étonnantes du célèbre détective :... La maison vide... Le...

Trois nouvelles aventures du plus célèbre détective anglais. • The Sussex Vampire Le Vampire du Sussex La nouvelle épouse d'un négociant en thé du Sussex a-t-elle eu un accès de vampirisme en s'attaquant à leur bébé ? Qui voudrait croire à une telle horreur ? Tel est bien pourtant, en...

Charles-Auguste Milverton... Sherlock Holmes a été contacté par lady Eva Blackwell, qui est victime d’une affaire de chantage montée par Charles Auguste Milverton. Ce dernier est en effet un homme méprisable qui gagne des milliers de livres sterling en échange de son silence concernant...