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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories, The Memoirs. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned.In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for e...

The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's `Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of v...

With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.`Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.'In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloo...

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" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Si...

These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region in which the explorers confront creatures from the prehistoric era. The Poison Belt presents an eerie doomsday scenario, while The Disintegration Machine satirically comments on scientific cynicis...

After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House.The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive.This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three boo...

Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.The S...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleMr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is ...

Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in Londons foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries.

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the right level from the very beginning.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Hilton Cubitt lives in the country with his American wife. The couple start receiving drawings of little dancing men. Cubitt goes to see Sherlock Holmes about these drawings, which seem to have frightened Cubitts wife. Holmes thinks they might be secret messages.Then there is a murder. Now Holmes must quickly work out what the pictures mean so that he can catch the killer.Watch the detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr Watson, at work in this and three other exciting mysteries....

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills. Listen along with downloadable MP3 Audio.show moreISBN: 0194247597Format: Paperback | 56 pages Anul aparitiei: 147 x 210 x 5mm | 116g...

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, an interactive MultiROM, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills.show moreISBN: 0194247236Nr pagini: 51 pagesFormat: 147 x 210 x 4mm | 136gAnul aparitiei: 17 Dec 2009...

How do you interest todays multimedia, digital students in reading, especially in a language that is not their own? Our exciting new edition of Dominoes holds the answer... A full-colour, entertaining, interactive four-level readers series, it offers students an enjoyable reading experience while building their language skills through integrated language activities, projects, and contextualized grammar work. Dominoes makes reading motivating and fun for students, while making it easy for you to ...

Als der legendare Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und sein vertrauter Freund, Dr. Watson, mit der Untersuchung einer mysteriosen Organisation - The Red-headed League - beginnen, stellen sie fest, dass mehr dahintersteckt, als der erste Blick vermuten lasst.show moreISBN: 9783852720012Nr pagini: 63 pagesFormat: 149 x 210 x 7mm | 132gAnul aparitiei: 2007

Seit Jahrhunderten lastet ein damonischer Fluch auf der Familie Baskerville. Ein riesiger Hund soll sich in den Mooren rund um den Landsitz der Familie herumtreiben. Das Tier scheint wieder zugeschlagen zu haben, als Sir Charles Baskerville ermordet aufgefunden wird. Werden Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson den Morder finden bevor auch das letzte Mitglied der Familie getotet wird?show moreISBN: 9783852721569Nr pagini: 84 pagesFormat: 149 x 211 x 7mm | 162gAnul aparitiei: 01 Mar 2010...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson ermitteln im Boscombe Valley in einem mysteriosen Mordfall.Der Farmer Charles McCarthy wurde tot in einem Teich aufgefunden.Hauptverdachtiger ist zunachst ausgerechnet sein Sohn James. Wird Sherlock Holmes auch diesen Fall restlos aufklaren konnen?show moreISBN: 9783990452806Nr pagini: 72 pagesFormat: 146 x 211 x 7mm | 143gAnul aparitiei: 02 Jun 2017...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world...''In London, 1888, the razor-sharp detective skills of Sherlock Holmes are to be put to the test. Mary Morstan reports two seemingly unconnected and inexplicable events: the disappearance of her father, a British Indian Army ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised reappearance to Baker Street and his good friend Dr Watson.Featuring one of Holmes'' greatest adversaries, C...