Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Tome 3

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH RENDELL INCLUDES 'THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND' The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a terrible crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to Baskerville Hall safe from danger.

The hound of the Baskervilles

Élémentaire, mon cher Watson! Élémentaire qu'un admirateur fanatique de Napoléon détruise tous les bustes en plâtre de l'Empereur!
Anarchiste ou dangereux maniaqueoe Élémentaire qu'un homme soit l'artisan de sa propre disparition! Quel rapport entre Neville Saint-Clair, homme d'affaires londonien, et Hugh Boone, sinistre estropié qui mendie dans la Cité?
Peut-être une double vie qui a poussé Saint-Clair à se mettre à l'écartoe Sherlock flaire la supercherie. Élémentaire que Silver Blaze, le cheval de course le plus célèbre d'Angleterre, disparaisse sans laisser de traces! Il va de soi que plus la piste est embrouillée, plus Sherlock Holmes y voit clair...

Les six Napoléons

On offre à une jeune gouvernante un emploi bien rémunéré, mais ses employeurs lui demandent de faire des excentricités...
Edition entièrement illustrée.

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Les hêtres d´or  [édition intégrale illustrée, revue et mise à jour]

My friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris. His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass plot in front of it, on the left-hand side as you pass down from the Arc de Triomphe. I fancy that it had been there long before the avenue was constructed, for the grey tiles were stained with lichens, and the walls were mildewed and discoloured with age. It looked a small house from the street, five windows in front, if I remember right, but it deepened into a single long chamber at the back. It was here that Dacre had that singular library of occult literature, and the fantastic curiosities which served as a hobby for himself, and an amusement for his friends. A wealthy man of refined and eccentric tastes, he had spent much of his life and fortune in gathering together what was said to be a unique private collection of Talmudic, cabalistic, and magical works, many of them of great rarity and value. His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum. To his English friends he never alluded to such matters, and took the tone of the student and virtuoso; but a Frenchman whose tastes were of the same nature has assured me that the worst excesses of the black mass have been perpetrated in that large and lofty hall, which is lined with the shelves of his books, and the cases of his museum.

Round the Fire Stories

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 Hêtres-Dorés est une nouvelle extraite du recueil Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes, paru dans le Tome 1 des Aventures de Sherlock Holmes chez Omnibus, en 2005. Version intégrale

Les Hêtres-Dorés

Londres, 1912. Edward Malone, jeune journaliste en plate de défis, est chargé d'interviewer le terrible professeur Challenger. Aussi fou que brillant, celui-ci aurait découvert en Amérique du Sud un endroit incroyable peuplé... de dinosaures ! Malheureusement, il n'a pu rapporter aucune preuve de sa précédente expédition. Alors comment croire toutes ses histoires fabuleuses ? Edward Malone décide de se lancer dans l'aventure d'une vie retourner à l'époque du Jurassique et explorer lui-même la jungle et ses mystères, où le danger rôde partout... Entre végétation hostile, carnivores affamés et ennemis inattendus, ce voyage dépassera tout ce qu'il avait imaginé !

Le monde perdu

Au n°3 de Lauriston Garden, près de Londres, dans une maison aide, un homme est trouvé mort. Assassiné ? Aucune blessure apparente ne permet de le dire, en dépit des taches de sang qui maculent la pièce alentour. Sur le mur, griffonnée à la hâte, une inscription : Rache ! Vengeance ! Vingt ans plus tôt, en 1860, dans les gorges de la Nevada, Jean Ferrier est exécuté par de sanguinaires Mormons chargés de faire respecter la loi du prophète. Sa fille, Lucie, est séquestrée dans le harem du fils de l'Ancien. Quel lien entre ces deux événements aussi insolites que dramatiques Un fil ténu, un fil rouge que seul Sherlock Holmes est capable de dévider. Une intrigue tout en subtilités où, pour la première fois, Watson découvre le maître...

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