Böcker av Arthur Conan Doyle

I många år trodde man att världen hade sett det sista av den berömda detektiven Sherlock Holmes, men tre år efter hans påstådda dödsdag dyker en mystisk man upp i London som utger sig för att vara den kusligt begåvade brottsbekämparen. Det visar sig snart stämma att den mystiska mannen faktiskt är Holmes – och hans plötsliga uppenbarelse kommer just i rättan tid. Ett hemskt, och tillsynes olösbart, mord har begåtts i London. Det är ett mysterium i ett slutet rum och ingen har hittills lyckats lösa det, men så fort Holmes tar sig an fallet börjar lösningen sakta men säkert falla på plats. Och det hela är mycket mer invecklat än vad någon hade kunnat föreställa sig ...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle var en skotsk läkare och författare, född i Edinburgh 1859 och död i Crowborough i East Sussex 1930. Han är mest känd för att ha skapat den berömda mästerdetektiven Sherlock Holmes och hans följeslagare doktor Watson. Totalt skrev han 56 noveller och 4 romaner om det kända paret. Berättelserna har också filmatiserats flera gånger.

Dimman ligger tät över London. Dr Watson och Sherlock Holmes kan knappt se huset på andra sidan gatan från lägenheten på Baker Street. Det är en lugn tid i staden, ingenting av intresse tycks hända och de båda herrarna är uttråkade. Tills Sherlocks bror Mycroft hör av sig. "Måste tala med dig angående Cardogan Wests, kommer med ens" lyder telegrammet. Det visar sig att den unga mannen West har fallit av ett tåg och avlidit tidigare under morgonen, till synes en olycka. Men brodern Mycroft intygar att regeringens mycket viktiga och hemliga papper har stulits från hans fickor: ritningar över en undervattensbåt. Det verkar trots allt röra sig om mord. Är Sherlock och Dr Watson en utländsk spion i hälarna? Och vad är det egentligen för undervattensbåt Mycroft talar om?Arthur Conan Doyle var en brittisk författare mest känd för sina böcker om detektiven Sherlock Holmes. Doyle arbetade som läkare när han 1887 publicerade den första romanen om Sherlock Holmes och hans kompanjon Dr Watson. Idag finns det över femtio berättelser om duon. Doyle var en profilerad författare och ägnade sig åt flera genrer, bland annat fantasy, science fiction, romantik, dramatik och poesi. Idag räknas böckerna om Sherlock Holmes som en milstolpe i kriminallitteraturen.

Sherlock Holmes is thought to have perished in the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls along with his nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. However, he astonishes Dr Watson, his long-time friend, by returning to London three years later. and the timing of his return is most opportune, for London is in the grip of a dangerous murderer.

Conan Doyle's third novel featuring "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes. In this adventure, Holmes and Dr Watson must investigate a mysterious and seemingly supernatural family curse!

Sherlock Holmes is perennially popular and has most recently gained further fans through the BBC TV series with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.

With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet.

"För Sherlock Holmes är hon den enda kvinna i världen: han kallar henne alltid endast »hon». Jag har aldrig hört honom ge henne någon annan benämning. I hans ögon står hon högt över sina medsystrar – hon fördunklar alla och en var av hela sitt kön. Jag tror ej, att han för Irene Adler erfarit någon slags känsla, liknande kärlek; alla känslor och sinnesrörelser – kärlek i synnerhet – voro främmande för hans kalla, bestämda och utomordentligt väl avvägda karaktär."Bland dessa tolv noveller finns några av de mest kända fall som detektiven Sherlock Holmes och hans vän doktor Watson tar sig an. Såsom "En skandal i Böhmen", där Sherlock Holmes försöker hjälpa kungen av Böhmen att undvika en komprometterande situation och för första gången möter sin like. Och "De fem apelsinkärnorna", som är en av författarens personliga favoriter av novellerna han skrivit om den ofattbart begåvade brottsbekämparen.Arthur Conan Doyle föddes 1859 och dog 1930. Han var en skotsk författare och läkare. Mest känd är han för sina böcker om mästerdetektiven Sherlock Holmes och doktor Watson, som han skrev hela 56 noveller och 4 romaner om.

'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes. As rumours of a legendary hound said to haunt the Baskerville family circulate, Holmes and Watson are asked to ensure the protection of Sir Charles' only heir, Sir Henry - who has travelled all the way from America to reside at Baskerville Hall in Devon. And it is there, in an isolated mansion surrounded by mile after mile of wild moor, that Holmes and Watson come face to face with a terrifying evil that reaches out from centuries past . . .

Three classic Holmes stories: A Scandal in Bohemia The Speckled Band The Final Problem Including an introduction by Murial Carvolth.

This collection brings together 33 of Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales. Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's public life - as a doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule, showing the ways in which these found articulation in the Gothic.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous Sherlock Holmes, was also a believer in ghosts and fairies and wrote books about spiritualism and fairies. In 1917 two young girls took photographs of what they said to be real fairies. The History is known as "The Cottingley Fairies" and this is the story about Conan Doyles investigation of the phenomena.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze which draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet which, when we attain it, will make our present civilisation seem barren and uncouth. Already our vanguard is well over the pass. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches so clearly before those eyes which are opened to see it.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the troubles which a young man may be called upon to face right away at the outset of his career, that I have handed them over to the gentleman who is about to edit them. There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary; but in the main I hope that they may be reproduced as they stand. I am sure that there is no privilege which my friend would value more highly than the thought that some other young man, harassed by the needs of this world and doubts of the next, should have gotten strength by reading how a brother had passed down the valley of shadow before him.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imagi-native of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the statement. Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and even monstrous, it is none the less forcing itself upon the general intelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to the new situation. This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger. I will endeavour in this narrative, which reproduces the original document in its necessarily somewhat fragmentary form, to lay before the reader the whole of the facts up to date, prefacing my statement by saying that, if there be any who doubt the narrative of Joyce-Armstrong, there can be no question at all as to the facts concerning Lieutenant Myrtle, R. N., and Mr. Hay Connor, who undoubtedly met their end in the manner described.

From the Silver Blaze to Sherlock's final appearance in the Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge. It is a combination of forensic science and bold storytelling.

Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits, Conan Doyle's enigmatic anti-hero Sherlock Holmes is a constant feature on TV and movie screens, with new audio and radio shows joining the frenzy. The Holmes tales have earned their place amongst the most influential of popular fantasy, crime and gothic stories.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.'This collection of eleven stories depict Holmes and Watson at their very best and solving some of their most notorious cases, culminating in 'The Final Problem'. In this infamous tale, Holmes comes face-to-face with his greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls.Each of the stories was previously published in The Strand magazine before being released together in a single volume in 1894. This is a quintessential collection, and a must-have for collectors and fans of one of the finest sleuths in English literature.

This is the first student edition of Sherlock Holmes stories and the first to reflect the recent critical interest in Holmes. The fifteen major stories are accompanied by a selection of nine essays representing a variety of contemporary critical approaches. Editorial apparatus includes an introduction, afterwords, headnotes, glosses, appendices and an index.

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher. But Challenger, invites Malone along on his next expedition, plunging him into a mysterious world populated by dinosaurs and ape men.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations - that's the man!'Summoned to a mysterious manor house by one of the henchmen of his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson find themselves confronted by the scene of a brutal murder. But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first meets the eye...First published as a serialisation in The Strand Magazine between 1914 and 1915, this fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel will delight fans of Conan Doyle's legendary detective and his faithful sidekick Watson.

Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Speckled Band".