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La historia comienza con el Dr. John Watson, que se instala en Londres para recuperarse de una herida que sufrió mientras actuaba como médico militar durante la Segunda Guerra de Afganistán. Por una serie de casualidades del destino, Watson conoce al excéntrico detective Sherlock Holmes. Ambos acabarán viviendo juntos, resolviendo un caso de asesinato y formando una de las parejas más reconocidas de la literatura.

A rich American is murdered in mysterious circumstances in a manor house in Sussex, England. Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by Dr. Watson, is invited to help the investigation. Though Holmes solves the mystery at hand, his attention and indeed the mystery itself shifts to the coalfields of North America. The heart of the matter is corruption - the date is 1875. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outs his finger with uncanny accuracy on civil corruption which so blighted North America in that century.

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.

The Hound of Baskervilles holds the listener in suspense as few murder stories do. Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the Baskerville Curse ‘a great black beast shaped like a hound’, are as unforgettable as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective similar only in exhibiting those unusual and outre features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers. Watson includes the earliest case of the champion of the law and what tragically seems to be his last.

This is a story from the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I collection.

"I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience. I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career after a medical training which gave me the MD of Edinburgh...I have traveled as Doctor to a whaler for seven months in the Arctic and afterwards in the West Coast of Africa." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Pour les beaux yeux de Gladys, Edouard Malone, journaliste à la Gazette, est prêt à braver les pires dangers. Mais où trouver l'aventure, la vraie, en ce XIXème siècle déjà bien monotone ? Au cœur de l'Amazonie ! Le Professeur Challenger, revenant d'une exploration scientifique, porteur d'une histoire incroyable et de croquis plus étonnants encore, entend bien défendre ses théories. A cette fin, il organise une nouvelle expédition... Accompagné de deux savants et d'un chasseur intrépide, Malone découvrira qu'il est des régions recélant encore bien des mystères...

Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city. Among thirteen further brilliant tales of mystery, detection and deduction, Sherlock Holmes investigates the problem of the Norwood Builder, deciphers the message of the Dancing Men, and cracks the case of the Six Napoleons.

In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide listeners with the thrill of the chase. These mysteries - involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lion's Mane; a creeping man and the three-gabled house - all test the bravery of Dr Watson and the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes, the greatest detective we have ever known.

Could a woman die of fright alone? And who is the sender of a most grizzly package - two human ears in a box? Holmes and Watson tackle a whole host of new mysteries before Baker Street's most famous detective finally leaves London for the quiet of a Sussex farm. But one final adventure puts an end to his retirement. As Britain stands poised on the brink of the First World War, can Sherlock Holmes keep a terrible new super-weapon from falling into the enemy's hands?

The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher. When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at work. But there is much more to this tale of murder than meets the eye.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a gripping Sherlock Holmes mystery that captures the essence of early 20th-century crime fiction.

Die Ultimo-1 muss einen mysteriösen Passagier in eine Station bringen. Gegenüber Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson behauptet der Mann, von Albträumen gequält zu werden, in denen ein gewisser Cthulhu auftaucht. Nahe der Station steht ein Denkmal dieses bösartigen Wesens und bald gibt es den ersten Toten.

La condesa de Morcar ha sufrido el robo de una valiosa piedra preciosa conocida como carbunclo azul y ofrece una recompensa de mil libras a quien proporciones cualquier información al respeto. En plena cena navideña, Holmes y Watson se involucrarán en el caso para ayudar al inspector Peterson de Scotland Yard.FEAT DESC

"You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend." When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl. Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong.

A Sherlock Holmes le han recomendado reposo y descanso, por lo que ha decidido pasar una temporada con su gran amigo Watson en los maravillosos paisajes de Cornualles. Pero los misterios parecen seguirle allá donde va y nada más llegar, el vicario de la zona le pide su ayuda para desentrañar el de la muerte de una mujer: Brenda Tregennis y la inexplicable pérdida de la razón de sus hermanos. Con su especial técnica de investigación Sherlock empieza hacer indagaciones y con sus razonamientos deductivos avanza rápidamente en la obtención de una respuesta.

This volume of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a dramatization based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by David Stuart Davies.

Le prime 12 avventure del detective più famoso della storia: La lega dei capelli rossi; L'uomo dal labbro spaccato; Il mistero della valle Boscombe; I cinque semi d'arancia; Uno scandalo in Boemia; Il carbonchio azzurro; La treccia rivelatrice; Il pollice del'ingegnere; La testa rossa; Un caso di identità; Nozze illustri; Il diadema di smeraldi

The Cabman's Story (sub-titled The Mysteries of a London "Growler") is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in the Cassell's Saturday Journal on 17 May 1884. A cabman tells one of his clients three stories he experienced. The first one is about a dead passenger, the second about a passenger with a mysterious box, and the last one tells the story of a passenger who is a terrorist.