The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. 

Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Ce roman nous emmène en voyage dans la vieille Angleterre, dans le monde du spiritisme et de la voyance. Le journaliste Edward Mallone mène l'enquête auprès des médiums et dans les réunions spiritistes. A la découverte des fantômes et des esprits il fait d'étranges rencontres dans un univers où le surnaturel côtoie la supercherie.

Au Pays des Brumes

Londres, 1878. Le Dr Watson fait la connaissance de Sherlock Holmes lorsqu'ils décident d'habiter ensemble. Un jour, Sherlock Holmes reçoit une lettre de Tobias Gregson, un des limiers de Scotland Yard, qui lui demande de l'aide dans une affaire de meurtre... 

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Une Étude en rouge

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. 

The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.

The Adventures of 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

Sherlock Holmes, le docteur Watson et l'inspecteur Lestrade de Scotland Yard rendent visite à Mme Susan Cushing qui vient de recevoir un bien étrange colis : deux oreilles humaines dans une boîte en carton. Ce mystérieux envoi serait-il le point final d'un meurtre ? Quel est le sens de cette découverte macabre ? Sherlock Holmes est une des plus grandes figures de la culture populaire et son seul nom est synonyme de mystère policier, de brouillard londonien et de crimes énigmatiques. Depuis 1887, Sherlock Holmes est le détective privé par excellence. Devenu très rapidement un véritable mythe, avant même la sortie de sa soixantième et dernière aventure en 1927, Sherlock Holmes demeure pour certains un héros de fiction créé par Arthur Conan Doyle. Mais pour le plus grand nombre, c'est un homme "qui a vraiment existé", dont les enquêtes sont rapportées par son ami, le docteur Watson. Les exploits de Sherlock Holmes ont été traduits dans le monde entier, ils ont été adaptés de multiples fois au théâtre, à la télévision, en BD et au cinéma.

La Boîte en carton, une enquête de Sherlock Holmes

En faisant connaître ces petits récits tirés de nombreuses affaires au cours desquelles les dons singuliers de mon compagnon m'ont permis d'être le témoin, et parfois l'acteur de certains drames étranges, il est tout naturel que je m'étende plus sur ses succès que sur ses échecs...

Le visage jaune - Une enquête de Sherlock Holmes

Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Tome 3

A special edition of The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. In a rip-roaring journey of peril and adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies and the jungle beneath is home to lumbering stegosaurus, carnivorous dinosaurs and terrifying ape-men. If the adventurers can survive then fame and fortune almost certainly await them back in London, but in this dangerous land that defies all science and reason who knows what could happen. First published in 1912, this thrilling story by the creator of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson was the inspiration for Jurassic Park.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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