Sir Arthur Conan: 439 books

One of the most iconic and memorable of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. A terrible beast, a house wreathed in fog, treacherous moorland and a cold-blooded murder - these are the things Sherlock and his faithful assistant Dr Watson are up against. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES gripped readers when it was first published and endures today.

In “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, Watson and Holmes are engaged by the Prime Minister and the European Secretary to help recover a sensitive stolen political document. Tracking the document to a recently murdered spy, Holmes realizes that the European Secretary’s wife actually has the...

In “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”, a young man working as the assistant to a Professor has been murdered. While it appears that anyone could have entered the house and committed the murder, a clue in the form of a pair of gold glasses is found near the body. Working on the assumption...

In “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”, a Norfolk country squire from a reputable family hires Holmes to help him learn who has been sending him weird encoded messages, in the form of dancing stick figures, that are disturbing his wife. Upon collecting enough of the messages Holmes cracks the code....

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold,...

Detective Gorilla Riller received a letter from an old friend, Ferguson, seeking his help. However, the incident revolves around a rumored vampire, possibly related to Count Dracula himself. Gorilla Riller enlists the aid of a skeptical Sherlock Holmes to discover why Ferguson’s baby has a neck wound. Is the cause supernatural, and what can Sherlock Holmes do about it?

In “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, someone is destroying small busts of Napoleon Bonaparte. At first merely a nuisance, vandalism quickly turns to murder after one of the statue owners finds a dead man on his doorstep beside a smashed statue. Reasoning his way back to the source of the statues,...

Sherlock Holmes, el más famoso detective privado de todos los tiempos, vuelve en "El sabueso de los Baskerville" para aclarar el misterio que persigue a la familia Baskerville: todos los herederos del mismo caserón han ido muriendo asesinados durante siglos por lo que parece un enorme...

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in fiction, a crime-solver gifted with powers of observation that allow him to see clues that ordinary detectives easily overlook. For more than a century, his adventures have thrilled generations of readers with crimes that are seemingly insoluble until the...

Miss Mary Marstan receives through the post once a year a large pearl without any clue as to the sender. When her mysterious correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson start out on a case. A terrible death and vanishing treasure lead to an epic pursuit through the dawn streets and later along...

PROLOGUE. For months past, she had felt that she was weakening, that the crescent wretchedness of five long years--an uninterrupted descent from level to level, on each of which the thorns of disillusion caught at, and tore from her, some shred of hope or self-respect--had done its work at last. Her...

John and Ezra Girldestone run a lucrative financial firm, revered and admired by the public for its prosperity. John and his son Ezra are both cynical in their outlook on life. Both are shrewd in their business knowledge, but Ezra’s skill surpasses even that of his father. John’s flaws...

It has sometimes struck me that some of you, when you have heard me tell these little adventures of mine, may have gone away with the impression that I was conceited. There could not be a greater mistake than this, for I have always observed that really fine soldiers are free from this failing. It is...

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