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Sherlock Holmes, personaje ficticio creado en 1887 por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, es un “detective asesor” del Londres de finales del siglo xix, que destaca por su inteligencia y hábil uso de la observa

Four more tales of mystery and murder, starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Andrew Sachs as Dr John Watson. In his accounts of the career of his friend Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson often makes passing reference to a mystery which his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in full. Bert Coules, the chief writer behind BBC Radio 4s celebrated dramatisations of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon of fifty-six short stories and four novels, once more takes up the pen where Sir Arthur left off Stories include: The Remarkable Performance of Mr Frederick Merridew and The Eyes of Horus

Pocas veces en la historia de la literatura un personaje de ficción alcanza tal celebridad que incluso oscurece la figura de su propio creador; el caso de Sherlock Holmes es uno de los más representativos. Primera novela del mitico detective, Estudio en escarlata gira en torno a un crimen cometido en Londres y cuya trama se relaciona con la secta mormona y su cuna, el estado de Utah. El valle del terror, caso sobre el cual planea la sombra del archicriminal Dr. Moriarty, suma a las habituales dosis de intriga y aventura ingredientes tan atractivos como la aparicion del legendario hermano mayor del detective, Mycroft.

Classic / British English (Available March 2008) Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious speckled band, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?

Price: $24.95 Format: Mixed Media 21982 mm x 27684 mm ISBN-10: 0194246469 ISBN-13: 9780194246460 Publication date: March 2008 Imprint: OUP UK Share on Facebook Dominoes: Level 2: 700 headwords: The Lost World Audio CD Pack (British English) Arthur Conan Doyle and Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley 'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you,' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them. Will they return alive?

Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies.These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of "Sherlock" magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious. Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Holmes pits his wits against 'the Napoleon of Crime', Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married and other intrigues that defeat the detectives of Scotland Yard.

Perseguido por una antigua maldición, sir Charles Baskerville muere en los páramos de Dartmoor. Entre sospechas, pistas falsas y personajes enigmáticos, Watson y Sherlock Holmes desentrañan el misterio del legendario perro fantasmal en un caso tan inquietante como inolvidable.

Features some of the best of Sherlock Holmes stories that include "The Speckled Band", "The Final Problem" and "The Dancing Men".

Esta novela toma la forma de dieciséis cartas escritas por J. Stark Munro a su amigo Herbert Swanborough, de Massachusetts. Stark Munro es un recién graduado de la escuela de medicina, y en sus cartas detalla las dificultades que tiene para abrirse camino profesional de la mano de su brillante pero poco ortodoxo compañero James Cullingworth. De ese relato epistolar emana el proceso de formacion de una mentalidad propia y muy singular que condicionara sus futuras decisiones y afectara a su vida de manera decisiva. Esta novela del creador de Sherlock Holmes inedita hasta hoy en nuestro idioma es, en realidad, un relato poco disimulado de las experiencias del propio Arthur Conan Doyle con George Turnavine Budd, con el que estuvo asociado hasta establecer su propia consulta en 1882. Llena de claves autobiograficas, retrata la importancia en su vida de la formacion cientifica, de sus desengaños como medico, de la vacilacion vocacional y de su matrimonio, factores sin los que, como confeso abiertamente, no se hubiera dedicado a escribir, y que fueron inspiracion para algunas de sus mas brillantes creaciones. "Mi actitud mental aparece descrita con bastante exactitud en Las cartas de Stark Munro." ~Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthys son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story

La aparición de unos misteriosos dibujos infantiles parecen anunciar un asesinato. ¿Qué se esconde tras los monigotes danzantes? Tal es el planteamiento de uno de los relatos incluidos en esta antologia de los mejores casos del genial detective Sherlock Holmes. Pero hay mucho mas: un enigmatico club que solo contrata a pelirrojos, un extraño ritual familiar que da lugar a robos y desapariciones y hasta un valioso diamante encontrado en el buche de un ganso de Navidad. Holmes, ayudado por su fiel amigo Watson, tendra que poner en juego todas sus admirables dotes deductivas antes de hacer cierta su tajante afirmacion: "Todos los problemas parecen simples una vez explicados". Si existe un icono detectivesco universal, ese es sin duda Sherlock Holmes, un personaje que ha trascendido su caracter puramente fictivo para convertirse en parte del imaginario popular. Creado en 1887 por el medico y escritor Arthur Conan Doyle, las aventuras y metodos de Holmes han inspirado gran parte de la literatura policiaca posterior, ademas de nuevos libros, peliculas y series de television. Misterio, suspense y humor son los ingredientes que el lector encontrara en estos seis extraordinarios relatos que constituyen, ademas, deliciosos frescos de la Inglaterra victoriana.

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. This book contains sixty adventures that pit his wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful sidekick Doctor John H. Watson, proves himself to be not only the quintessential detective but also the most engaging and entertaining company any reader could ask for. This beautiful new edition contains a new foreword by Ruth Rendell.

This classic collection consists of the early mysteries featuring the unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his trustworthy assistant, Dr. Watson.

This book includes an introduction by Mark Billingham. When Dr Watson ends up renting rooms in Baker Street with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he finds that he has let himself in for a great deal more than he imagined. He is called upon to help the budding detective solve a perplexing mystery, involving a dead body found in a locked room. Although the body shows no signs of having been attacked, Holmes is convinced that a murder has been committed. As Watson looks on, he uses his exceptional powers of deduction to unravel a case that involves both kidnapping and thwarted love.

Sherlock Holmes es un personaje ficticio creado en 1887 por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930),escritor inglés iniciador del género policíaco.En las aventuras del detective Sherlock Holmes y de su ayudante destacan las rasgos tipicos del investigador cerebral (la inteligencia,el habil uso de la observacion,el razonamiento deductivo y la ironia para resolver casos dificiles) y las caracteristicas de la novela policiaca (solucionar un enigma tras la observacion de detalles aparentemente insignificantes).Las aventuras de Holmes fueron publicadas por The Strand Magazine.