Conan Doyle aborde l'époque de la lutte acharnée entre l'Angleterre et Napoléon. Il accompagne jusque sur le champ de bataille de Waterloo un jeune villageois arraché au calme de ses falaises natales par le désir de protéger le sol national contre le cauchemar de l'invasion française, qui hantait alors l'imagination britannique.

La grande ombre

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.

The return of Sherlock Holmes

'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. But when Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson, aiding Miss Marston, attend the assignation, they embark on a dark and mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian, some hidden treasure, deadly poison darts and a thrilling race along the River Thames.

Sherlock Holmes Tome 2 ; the sign of four

Une belle description de l'Angleterre du XIXe (ville et campagne), du milieu de la boxe aux débuts de ce sport, dans le cadre d'une intrigue policière.

Jim Harrison - Boxeur

Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sherlock Holmes est un recueil de nouvelles policières écrit par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et mettant en scène son célèbre détective privé.

Nouvelles du recueil

L'Association des Hommes Roux

Un cas d'identité

Le Mystère de la vallée de Boscombe

L'Aventure des Cinq Pépins d'orange

L'Homme à la lèvre retroussée

Nouvelles aventures de Sherlock Holmes

Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Tome 3

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

Le chien des Baskerville

Quel affreux secret dissimule donc Mme Ronder – pensionnaire depuis plus de sept ans chez Mme Merrilow– dont le visage, atrocement mutilé, est toujours recouvert d’un voile épais ? « La Pensionnaire voilée» n’est pas une histoire criminelle à proprement parler, mais celle d’un drame humain que Sherlock Holmes saura faire resurgir du passé.Durant les dix-sept ans qu’il a passés auprès du grand détective, le docteur Watson a accumulé une masse considérable de documents sur ses enquêtes ; il en a extrait six pour ces Nouvelles archives, qui appartiennent au meilleur de l’œuvre de Conan Doyle : « La pensionnaire voilée », « Le problèmedu pont de Thor », « L’homme qui marchait à quatre pattes », « La crinière du lion », « L’aventure de Shoscombe Old Place », « L’aventure du marchand de couleurs qui s’était retiré des affaires ».

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