Un secret lié à une effrayante figure jaune, un pouce tranché, un interprète grec mêlé à un odieux chantage... voilà de quoi éveiller l'intérêt de Sherlock Holmes. Assisté du fidèle Watson, le fameux détective entreprend d'élucider ces sombres énigmes. Mais les limiers les plus perspicaces peuvent parfois se tromper...

La figure jaune ; autres aventures de Sherlock Holmes

La nuit venue, Richard Ramirez, mieux connu sous le nom de Nightstalker, le prédateur nocturne, arpente les rues à la recherche de sang frais, massacrant au hasard de ses rencontres hommes et femmes jusque dans leurs propres maisons. Le tueur est totalement imprévisible. Ses crimes vont du simple cambriolage, au viol avec violence et au meurtre. Tandis qu'un État tout entier est sous le coup de la peur, un tueur en série hante la Californie, pénétrant dans les maisons de ses victimes la nuit pendant leur sommeil. Il faudra une longue enquête parsemée de meurtres pour découvrir l'identité de ce mystérieux rôdeur.  Il a été condamné à la peine de mort pour avoir commis 11 viols et 14 meurtres. Ce document retrace le cours de l'enquête et l'histoire tragique de cette affaire criminelle hors du commun.

Dossiers criminels ; le prédateur nocturne

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

"A Study in Scarlet" is the first published story of one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. Here Dr. Watson, who has just returned from a war in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time when they become flat-mates at the famous 221 B Baker Street. In "A Study in Scarlet" Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder at Lauriston Gardens as Dr. Watson tags along with Holmes while narratively detailing his amazing deductive abilities.

Une Etude en rouge

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected "Sherlock Holmes" Stories (4 novels and 44 short stories + An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle himself)"  is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The collection of "The Collected "Sherlock Holmes" Stories includes :
Essay: An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle's thoughts about Sherlock Holmes)
Novels:
A Study In Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
Short story collections:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle  (1859 - 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

The Collected "Sherlock Holmes" Stories (4 novels and 44 short stories + An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle himself)

Sherlock Holmes, tome 2

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 editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes edition bilingue

Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes, volume 6
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.
13 nouvelles de Sherlock Holmes :
- La Maison Vide
- L'Entrepreneur de Norwood
- Les Hommes Dansants
- La Cycliste Solitaire
- L'École du prieuré
- Peter le Noir
- Charles Auguste Milverton
- Les Six Napoléons
- Les Trois Étudiants
- Le Pince-Nez en Or
- Un Trois-Quarts a été perdu
- Le Manoir de L'Abbaye
- La Deuxième Tâche
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Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes

Soudain, dans le vacarme de la tempête éclata le cri perçant et sauvage d'une femme terrifiée. Je sus que c'était la voix de ma sœur [...]. Pendant que je courais dans le corridor, [sa] porte s'ouvrit et tourna lentement sur ses gonds [...] Je [la] vis paraître dans l'ouverture, le visage blanc de terreur, les mains à tâtons cherchant du secours [...] Elle se tordait comme quelqu'un qui souffre terriblement et ses membres étaient affreusement convulsés [...] elle cria soudain d'une voix que je n'oublierai jamais : "Ô mon Dieu ! Hélène ! C'était la bande ! La bande mouchetée !" ". Sherlock Holmes parviendra-t-il à percer ce mystère effrayant ? Élémentaire, mon cher Watson...Escorté de son fidèle collaborateur, le célèbre détective mène également l'enquête dans " L'Association des Hommes roux ", " L'Escarboucle bleue ", et " Les Cinq Pépins d'orange "

La figure jaune ; autres aventures de Sherlock Holmes

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