Le traité naval est une nouvelle extraite du recueil Les Mémoires de Sherlock Holmes, paru dans le Tome 2 des Aventures de Sherlock Holmes chez Omnibus, en 2006. Version originale

Le traité naval

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. 

Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'

The Sign of the Four

Redécouvrez les aventures de Sherlock Holmes et le chien des Baskerville dans une version adaptée et illustrée, idéale pour des jeunes de 9 ans et plus.
Cette collection spécialement conçue pour des enfants de 9-10 ans reprend des grands textes de la littérature de jeunesse, en les rendant accessibles au niveau de lecture et de compréhension de ces jeunes lecteurs.
En fin d'ouvrage, un lexique et des questions de compréhension permettent de vérifier que l'enfant a bien saisi ce qu'il a lu.

Mes premiers classiques Larousse : Sherlock Holmes et le chien des Baskerville

Chaque année, la jeune Mary Morstan, dont le père, officier dans l'armée des Indes, a disparu voilà longtemps, reçoit par la poste le présent d'une perle. Le jour où une lettre lui fixe un mystérieux rendez-vous, elle demande au célèbre Sherlock Holmes de l'y accompagner... Cependant que le bon Dr Watson est conquis par le charme de la jeune fille, nous nous enfonçons dans une des plus ténébreuses énigmes qui se soient offertes à la sagacité du détective. L'Inde des maharajahs, le fort d'Agra cerné par la rébellion des Cipayes, le bagne des îles Andaman sont les décors de l'extraordinaire aventure qu'il va reconstituer, et qui trouvera sa conclusion dans les brouillards de la Tamise...
Une des plus inoubliables aventures de Sherlock Holmes, publiée pour la première fois en 1889.

Sherlock Holmes Tome 3 ; le signe de quatre

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M. R. C. S., from his friends of the C. C. H., " was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry-dignified, solid, and reassuring.

"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?"

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.

"How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head."

"I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me, " said he. "But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor's stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it."

"I think, " said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, "that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation."

"Good!" said Holmes. "Excellent!"

"I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot."

"Why so?"

"Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it. The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it."

"Perfectly sound!" said Holmes.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

We owe The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs? Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo

Le Chien des Baskerville

Les grands classiques de la Littérature adaptés pour une lecture facile !
Comment l'horrible mendiant à la lèvre retroussée s'est-il débarrassé du cadavre de Neville Saint-Clair ? Quelle est la redoutable bande mouchetée qui tue sans bruit ? Et qui a coupé le pouce de l'ingénieur ? Pour résoudre ces énigmes, le fameux détective Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson ont besoin de toute leur intelligence, de leur sang-froid... et de leur courage !

Sherlock Holmes

12 nouvelles de 1891 et 1892 :- Un scandale en Bohême- La Ligue des rouquins- Une affaire d'identité- Le Mystère du Val Boscome- Les Cinq Pépins d'orange- L'Homme à la lèvre tordue- L'Escarboucle bleue- Le Ruban moucheté- Le Pouce de l'ingénieur- Un gentleman célibataire- Le Diadème de béryls- Les Hêtres rouges

Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

Extrait : "En 1878, reçu médecin à l'Université de Londres, je me rendis à Netley pour suivre les cours prescrits aux chirurgiens de l'armée ; et là, je complétai mes études. On me désigna ensuite, comme aide-major, pour le 5e régiment de fusiliers de Northum-berland en garnison aux Indes."

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