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Sherlock Holmes es un detective ficticio creado por el autor y médico Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, graduado de la universidad de medicina de Edimburgo. Un detective con base en Londres, "detective consultor" cuyas habilidades rondan lo fantástico, Holmes es conocido por su astuto razonamiento lógico, su habilidad para adoptar casi cualquier disfraz y el uso de la ciencia forense para resolver casos difíciles.
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The investigation of a bizarre crime in A Study in Scarlet brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson together for the first time, in what proves to be an auspicious beginning for one of the most illustrious crime-solving partnerships of all times. In The Sign of Four, an incredible tale of greed and revenge unfolds as Holmes and Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to the dark heart of London.
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Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious...
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In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied at the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace.
So writes Dr. Watson, sidekick and partner-in-crimesolving to the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, in one of the ten classic tales of mystery and detection collected in this volume. Included are several stories...
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Ces cinq nouvelles d'Arthur Conan Doyle sont autant de palpitants mystères. Trois d'entre elles mettent en scène Sherlock Holmes, le célèbre détective crée par Arthur Conan Doyle, et son ami Watson. Grâce à ses dons d'observation et ses excellentes facultés de déduction frôlant parfois le surnaturel, Holmes parvient dans « Le Bazar de l'Université » à deviner le contenu d'une étrange lettre reçue par Watson (à moins qu'il ne lise...
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A la casa de Sherlock Holmes, llega una joven, la señorita Hunter, a pedirle que la aconseje sobre un trabajo de institutriz que le ofrecieron en una casa de familia. Él le sugiere no aceptarlo. Ella, no obstante, decide tomar el empleo, debido a la buena paga. El detective le manifiesta que por cualquier urgencia que se le presente, puede enviarle un telegrama y acudirá de inmediato. El telegrama llega. Holmes con su amigo Watson arriban al día...
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"The Stockbroker's Clerk" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones (owing to the omission of the "scandalous" "Adventure of the Cardboard Box"). The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1893 and featured seven illustrations by Sidney Paget.
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"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final...
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"The Reigate Squires" was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous...
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This recording contains fully dramatized versions of some the world's best loved classic tales of horror and suspense, complete with sound effects and music. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Tales of Poe which includes the classics The Gold Bug, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado.
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Collection of spellbinding complete and unabridged short stories, read fittingly by Edward Hardwicke. Sherlock Holmes is the enduring and eternally likeable detective figure and never fails to be wise to the machinations of the criminal mind. Accompanied by his trusty sidekick Dr. Watson, the pair will delight a listener with their inimitable sleuthing style and ever-charismatic idiosyncrasies. Good old Detective tales full of intrigue and twists....
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Altogether, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories about Sherlock Holmes. Throughout, Dr. Watson (or just Watson) was included as a catalyst for Holmes's massive ego and mental processes. Eventually, Doyle felt the stories were distracting him from more serious literary work, but he did finally wind it up with the seven stories you're about to hear. In the words of Watson (Dr. John H. Watson, MD), we have the pleasure of...
58) The Land of Mist
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This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1826 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20....
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. "Danger! And Other Stories" (1918) was a collection of short stories The collection's title story, "Danger!", was written eighteen months before the outbreak of World War I. First published in the Strand Magazine...
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"The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919 and was collected later in “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale....
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