Découvrez en version bilingue anglais-français deux enquêtes de Sherlock Holmes extraites du recueil « Son dernier  coup  coup  d'archet » :  « Le  Détective Agonisant » et « La Disparition de Lady Frances Carfax ». En prime, un conte d'horreur d'Arthur Conan Doyle intitulé « De Nouvelles Catacombes ».

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Cette histoire raconte une étrange disparition d'un jeune garçon âgé de dix ans qui se nomme Lord Saltire (Arthur). Le petit garçon a été envoyé dans cette école par son père, il était triste à l'idée que sa mère soit parti vivre en France.

L'École du Prieuré

Sherlock Holmes doit enquêter sur le très étonnant comportement du professeur Presbury. En effet, depuis ses fiançailles avec la jeune et belle Alice Morphy, Presbury a une attitude qui déroute son entourage. Quelle peut être la cause de ce changement ?

L'homme qui grimpait, une enquête de Sherlock Holmes

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

Une malédiction pèse sur les Baskerville, qui habitent le vieux manoir de leurs ancêtres, perdu au milieu d'une lande sauvage: quand un chien-démon, une bête immonde, gigantesque, surgit, c'est la mort. Le décès subit et tragique de Sir Charles Baskerville et les hurlements lugubres que l'on entend parfois venant du marais, le grand bourbier de Grimpen, accréditent d'une façon saisissante la sinistre légende. Dès son arrivée à Londres, venant du Canada, Sir Henry Baskerville, seul héritier de Sir Charles, reçoit une lettre anonyme: " Si vous tenez à votre vie et à votre raison, éloignez-vous de la lande. " Malgré ces menaces, Sir Henry décide de se rendre à Baskerville Hall. Consulté, Sherlock Holmes charge son fidèle Watson de l'accompagner. Roman captivant, angoissant, Le Chien des Baskerville est l'une des plus célèbres aventures de Sherlock Holmes du grand Conan Doyle.

Le chien des Baskerville

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of the great consulting detective's cases, we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Speckled Band, The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Five Orange Pips and The Man with the Twisted Lip.

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes Tome 3

Une nouvelle traduction des écrits de Conan Doyle, adoptant le parti de l'originalité.

Sherlock Holmes 1

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

The Lost World

This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brain child, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unbeatable for thrills and excitement.

Contents:

Tales of terror:

The horror of the heights

The leather funnel

The new catacomb

The case of Lady Sannox

The terror of Blue John Gap

The Brazilian cat

Tales of mystery:

The lost special

The beetle-hunter

The man with the watches

The japanned box

The black doctor

The Jew's breastplate

The nightmare room.

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