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«L'alone soprannaturale che ammanta il caso è un'esca troppo appetitosa per la straordinaria capacità di osservazione e di deduzione di Sherlock Holmes, che come sempre coinvolge nelle sue indagini anche il fido dottor Watson, formidabile spalla per le sue battute e il suo ingegno. [...] Dopo aver letto Sherlock Holmes, quel suo vizio di studiare le persone diventa contagioso. Ancora oggi, tutte le volte che leggo un libro di Conan Doyle sull'...

Sherlock Holmes' greatest adventure awaits him and Dr. Watson in Dartmoor. The devil's own hound is said to lurk in the deep shadows of the moor, and its target is the owners of Baskerville Hall.The curse over Baskerville Hall has claimed the life of the most recent owner, and now the new master has been threatened. It is up to Holmes and Watson to untangle the clues that all point to a supernatural origin. Could the hound really be the vengef...

Sherlock Holmes e Watson indagano sul caso di una giovane donna che teme di essere assassinata. Helen Stoner, la figliastra del dottor Grimesby Roylott, ha buoni motivi per sospettare che il patrigno abbia ucciso sua sorella, anche se lei non sa come, e che ora voglia sbarazzarsi anche di lei.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A collection of Tales of Adventure and Tales of Medical Life first published together in book form in 1925.

Zwei Männer werden tot aufgefunden, die Londoner Polizei ist ratlos. Sherlock Holmes hat gerade mit Dr. Watson eine Wohnung in der Baker Street bezogen. Er erkennt mit seiner verblüffenden Kombinationsgabe rasch die Zeichen, die ihn zu dem Täter führen werden. Allerdings schlägt die Geschichte zunächst einen sehr, sehr weiten Bogen ins Land der Mormonen in Utah ... »Eine Studie in Scharlachrot« ist der erste Fall von Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Wa...

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Nonostante la loro diversità, gli inediti raccolti in 'Sherlock Holmes: un uomo, un metodo' costituiscono un'unità, specie per chi sia curioso di capire l'architettura interna, lo scheletro stesso che porta alla costruzione di quell'edificio armonico e ben progettato che è un giallo ben riuscito. Potrebbe essere quasi una guida per un corso di scrittura creativa. Ma anche un piacevole intrattenimento per chi si limita al gusto della buona lett...

Nel 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle, uno sconosciuto medico di periferia, dava alle stampe "Uno studio in rosso", il romanzo che vedeva l'esordio di due famosissimi personaggi letterari: il dottor Watson, sotto le cui modeste spoglie si celava l'alter ego dell'autore, ed il geniale Sherlock Holmes, il detective per antonomasia.

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`There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it'. Arriving in the wilderness of London and in need of lodgings, Dr John Watson finds himself living at 221B Baker Street with one Sherlock Holmes.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, best known for Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. These short stories revolve around boxing, fox hunting and war.

When a country doctor comes to Sherlock Holmes with a far-fetched tale of a sudden death, a devil dog and an ancient curse, Holmes is sceptical. Could the demise of Sir Charles Baskerville really have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in another case, he sends Watson to ...

It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself'. Sherlock Holmes is intrigued and disturbed when he receives an ominous coded message: a Mr Douglas of Birlstone House is in terrible danger. Before Holmes can act, shocking news arrives. Douglas has been founded dead - his face blown off by a shotgun. Scotland Yard is stumped. Wa...

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Il generale Heatherstone arriva a Cloomber portando con sé una colpa misteriosa. Il suo comportamento bizzarro suscita la curiosità dell'intero vicinato: alloggia con la famiglia in una dimora protetta da una possente recinzione, costringendo i suoi cari a vivere in uno stato di reclusione forzata. L'atmosfera insolita che si respira da quelle parti non lascia supporre niente di buono e la situazione precipita in un crescendo di tensione con l...

Excerpt from Songs of the RoadAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as...