Une femme se fait suivre quand elle se promène à la bicyclette. 



Edition entièrement illustrée.

La cycliste solitaire  [édition intégrale illustrée, revue et mise à jour]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nous raconte les exploits d'un officier d'empire avec humour, panache et un brin de malice...tellement français!

Les exploits du colonel Gérard

The hound of the Baskervilles

Si les aventures du détective Sherlock Holmes sont universellement connues et appréciées, il est loin d'en être de même pour les contes et nouvelles que Conan Doyle fit paraître dans divers magazines pour la plupart à la toute fin du XIXe siècle.
Pourtant la plume et l'imagination de Conan Doyle y sont d'autant plus acérées que le format court de la nouvelle, ou du conte, nécessite justement ces qualités-là.
Alors laissez-vous aller au plaisir du frisson et de l'inimaginable des Contes de Terreur et au plaisir, toujours renouvelé, des aventures rocambolesques et échevelées des héros des Contes de Pirates.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), célébrissime écrivain (et médecin) écossais a créé l'archétype du détective privé avec Sherlock Holmes ; il est également l'auteur de nombreux romans historiques, de science-fiction et de nombreuses nouvelles (contes) autres que policières.

Contes de pirates ; contes de terreur

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

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot is a short Sherlock Holmes detective story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was published in 1910 and set in 1897 taking place in Cornwall where Sherlock Holmes is taking a holiday because he has been pushing himself too hard. But as with any great detective murder follows him through the countryside, and there is naturally a murder that he is the only one but him can solve.The story begins with Watson and Holmes relaxing in Cornwall when they are approached by the local Vicar and the man living with him asking for help. Watson is not happy about the intrusion because he believes that his friend needs to rest but Holmes is immediately excited by the chance to use his brain and the truth is that they really do need Holmes help.The mystery is the brother and sister of the man living with the vicar have had a strange tragedy. He had spent the night with his brothers and sister visiting and playing whist. The next morning he discovers a strange scene. Something clearly has happened just moments after he had left. His sister is still sitting at the table, but is dead, and both of his brothers have seemingly had some type of nervous break down as they are laughing and singing. The explanation everyone else has given is that this is the work of the Devil.Holmes and Watson as skeptical that this is a case of demonic attack but they at first have no other real explanation. Holmes questions everyone and discovers that the maid who found them not only fainted when she came in but became sick. Shortly afterward the Vicar arrives in a near panic. It seems that the third brother, who had left just before the events has died, apparently of the same thing. This is odd to Holmes because he has already deduced that it was he who had thrown something into the fire to poison his brothers and sister. This leaves a second mystery which is who killed the murderer.The answer turns out to be a man who had loved the sister for years. He was unable to marry her because he was unable to divorce a wife who had left him years before. He had told the murdering brother of a strange poison he had found in Africa and the brother had stolen it certain that the man would leave before hearing of the three and he could take all of the inheritance for himself.

L'aventure du pied du diable

Retrouver dans cette intégrale toutes les aventures du célèbre détective Sherlock Holmes et de son fidèle associé Watson.

Inclus dans cette édition intégrale: Les 4 grands romans de Sherlock Holmes:

Un crime étrange (ou l'étude en rouge selon la traduction)

La marque des quatre

Le chien des Baskerville

La vallée de la peur

Et les principaux recueils de nouvelles mettant en scène Sherlock Holmes:

Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes

Nouvelles aventures de Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes triomphe

La résurrection de Sherlock Holmes

Souvenirs de Sherlock Holmes

Les archives de Sherlock Holmes

L'intégrale de Sherlock Holmes

Mlle Morstan demande à Sherlock Holmes d'enquêter sur son père, officier aux Indes, disparu voilà dix ans, le 3 décembre 1878. Holmes et Watson se rendent avec elle à un mystérieux rendez-vous, où ils apprennent la mort accidentelle du capitaine et l'existence d'un fabuleux trésor que son père avait rapporté des Indes. Holmes comprend très vite qu'il s'agit d'une vengeance.

Le signe des quatre

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.  Extrait : Ma parole, dit-il, mais vous feriez un grenadier pour une compagnie de flanc. Quant aux questions que vous me faites, j'aurais le droit de m'en fâcher, s'il s'agissait de tout autre que vous, mais vous avez le droit d'être renseigné, après m'avoir traité avec tant de courtoisie. Je me nomme Bonaventure de Lapp. Je suis soldat et voyageur de profession, et je viens de Dunkerque, ainsi que vous pouvez le voir en grosses lettres sur le bateau.

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