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Translator: Albert Savine

Contiene este volumen once de los casos más notables que resolvió Sherlock Holmes, donde no sabemos qué admirar más: si la inteligencia de Holmes como detective o la maestría de Watson como narrador. La fama de Holmes crecio de tal manera que a Conan Doyle llego a hacersele insoportable. Y decidio asesinarlo. En El problema final, sobrio y conmovedor relato, en el que de modo extraordinario se trasluce la ternura de Holmes a traves de su proverbial impasibilidad, asistimos a la desaparicion del detective. Pero fueron tantas y tan violentas las protestas de los lectores, que, diez años despues, Conan Doyle se vio obligado a resucitarlo.Contiene este volumen once de los casos más notables que resolvió Sherlock Holmes, donde no sabemos qué admirar más: si la inteligencia de Holmes como detective o la maestría de Watson como narrador. La fama de Holmes crecio de tal manera que a Conan Doyle llego a hacersele insoportable. Y decidio asesinarlo. En El problema final, sobrio y conmovedor relato, en el que de modo extraordinario se trasluce la ternura de Holmes a traves de su proverbial impasibilidad, asistimos a la desaparicion del detective. Pero fueron tantas y tan violentas las protestas de los lectores, que, diez años despues, Conan Doyle se vio obligado a resucitarlo.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beetons Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincotts Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyles death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.This collection contains all the 60 official and the 6 unofficial Sherlock Holmes stories - in total 66 works (the biggest and greatest Sherlock Holmes collection in the eBook world)

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917.The collection was originally called Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes and did not contain the actual story His Last Bow, which appeared later, after the full-length The Valley of Fear was published. However later editions added it and changed the title. Some recent complete editions have restored the earlier title.When the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were published in the USA for the first time, the publishers believed "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was too scandalous for the American public, since it dealt with the theme of adultery. As a result, this story was not published in the USA until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark tale of Sherlock Holmes early encounter with Professor Moriarty. When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriartys henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they discover a corpse with its head blown to pieces. But all is not as it seems. For the origins of this case lie in America, and involve a Pinkertons man and the doings of a terrible and secretive lodge...

De entre los numerosos casos protagonizados por Sherlock Holmes (y dejando aparte los cuatro que adoptan forma de novela, recogidos ya en esta misma serie), se reúnen ahora en dos volúmenes, seleccionadas por Jesus Urceloy, Las aventuras imprescindibles, aquellas que paso a paso, por su brillantez o sus protagonistas, fueron configurando la biografia y personalidad del famoso detective. Esta primera entrega comprende los mas destacados episodios a los que se enfrento Holmes desde su juventud en Oxford hasta su desaparicion en el fragor de las cataratas de Reichenbach junto con el archicriminal profesor Moriarty.

While Holmes and Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most famous cases - Silver Blaze, The Greek Interpreter and The Musgrave Ritual among them - the forces of international crime plot their revenge against the detective.

Els fets del cas són senzills. Sir Charles tenia el costum de passejar cada vespre, abans d’anar-se’n a dormir, per la famosa avinguda dels teixos de Baskerville. El dia 4 de juny, sir Charles havia

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions. But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind --and his companion, who places no value on human life...

Una joya de incalculable valor perteneciente a la condesa de Moncar ha desaparecido del cofre del hotel donde ella se hospeda. Sherlock Holmes, junto a su compañero el doctor Watson, investigarán tan misterioso robo: pista a pista, paso a paso, daran con las claves para resolver el caso. El poder de observacion, el ingenio y el razonamiento que caracterizan el metodo de investigacion de Sherlock les conduce al feliz descubrimiento del autentico ladron de la joya azul. Un fantastico libro regalo que adapta uno de los casos mas famosos y originales del detective mas conocido de todos los tiempos.

El món perdut (1912) Narra les aventures del professor Challenger, un científic especialitzat en dinosauris, i Ed Malone, un periodista del London Journal, juntament amb el professor Summerlee i l'aventurer Lord John Roxton. Tots quatre emprenen un apassionat viatge per comprovar l'existencia d'especies prehistoriques en les terres llunyanes de Maple White.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) es un dels escriptors escocesos mes celebres, va estudiar medicina a la Universitat d'Edimburg. Va ser el creador del mes famos detectiu de la literatura, el celebre Sherlock Holmes.

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