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Aonia edizioni. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. The 1939 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was based on the stage play by William Gillette and was not a direct adaptation of the book. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine fro...

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that had originally been published in the Strand Magazine. Much like we like to watch our favorite shows with a new episode every week, the Strand published these stories and fans couldn't get enough. Readers, not unlike fans today, wanted to have a marathon, so Doyle published collections allowing them to binge out on their favorite detective. This is th...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Britain and Collier's in the United States. But rather than take a break from Holmes, Conan Doyle decided that Holmes had to die. So, in a story titled "The Adventure of the Final Problem, " published 1893, Holmes dies after falling off a cliff while bat...

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle is one of many stories about Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. At the beginning of this novel, Holmes gets a message from one of Professor Moriarty's agents-Fred Porlock. From time to time, Porlock sends Sherlock inside information about Moriarty's endeavors. Despite the fact that the law sees Moriarty as innocent, Sherlock firmly believes him to be the puppet master of a criminal underworld. S...

I have missed you very much since your return to America, my dear Bertie, for you are the one man upon this earth to whom I have ever been able to unreservedly open my whole mind. I don't know why it is, for, now that I come to think of it, I have never enjoyed very much of your confidence in return. But that may be my fault. Perhaps you don't find me sympathetic, even though I have every wish to be. I can only say that I find you intensely so...

The Science of Deduction Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down

THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingl

In The Lost World, Edward D. Malone, a newspaper reporter for The Daily Gazette, has been assigned to write an article on the irascible Professor George Edward Challenger who has recently returned from South America with unbelievable accounts of prehistoric life on a remote, uncharted plateau deep in the heart of the Amazon. The scientific community in London believes that Challenger is a fraud, so the professor plans a new expedition to estab...

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. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Wa...

There are no other beryls like these in the world and they would be impossible to replace. I leave it with you, Mr. Holder, trusting that it shall stay safe and sound.' Mr. Holder's life is turned on its head when a piece of the priceless crown he's been asked to guard goes missing. The police have no clues and only one suspect: Mr. Holder's own son. Everyone's hopes lie with Sherlock Holmes. But can the genius detective find the missing treas...

O jovem jornalista Ed Malone não tem ideia do que encontrará nesta viagem exploratória a qual acaba de se candidatar: ir até os confins da América do Sul, junto com um estudioso e um caçador para comprovar a veracidade da teoria do excêntrico professor Challenger - que afirma ter encontrado criaturas pré-históricas criaturas nessas terras longínquas. Será?

Deerstalker-Mütze tief im Gesicht, qualmende Pfeife, aufgestellter Mantelkragen - so kennen wir Sherlock Holmes, den berühmtesten Detektiv aller Zeiten. Normalerweise ermittelt er von der Londoner Baker Street aus. Doch Holmes' spektakulärster Fall führt ihn in einer temporeichen Verfolgungsjagd von der Metropole London quer über den Kontinent in die malerische Schweiz. Am tosenden Reichenbachfall kommt es zum Showdown zwischen Holmes und sein...

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The challenge that Holmes and Watson face in the moors of Baskerville is quite different from any of their other cases: a mystery that straddles the line between this world and the possibility of the supernatural. There's an old legend of the Baskervilles that they're tainted by a centuries-old curse, a spectral hell hound will bring about the early demise of the members of the family if they choose to venture out upon the moors at night. The ...

Holmes shook his head sadly. 'You think that unless this document is found there will be war?' 'It's very likely, ' said the prime minister. 'Then, sir, we must prepare for war.' A secret government document has been stolen. It's up to Holmes and Watson to find it and save the country from war! But with sly secret agents, mysterious murders and the question of a curious bloodstain to contend with, will Holmes and Watson be able to piece the pu...

The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II.