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His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is the second to last series of short stories of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They follow The Valley of Fears and are only followed by The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.

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The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical fiction adventure novel that takes place from 1366 to 1367 during the Hundred Years war. The backdrop is that of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to return the Throne to its rightful heir Peter of Castile, climaxing at the Battle of Najera. Boyle considers this book among his best work, better than the Holmes series, for which he is famous.

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The Parasite is the 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a young man named, Austin Gilroy. Gilroy is a young physioligy student under the tutelage of a professor of the occult. In his studies, Gilroy is introduced to an older woman, Miss Penclosa, who claims to have mystical powers. Gilroy's fiancee is skeptical until a series of unfortunate events may convince the young couple that Miss Penclosa is more than she seems.

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The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final detective novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature the famous protagonist Sherlock Holmes. The plot centers around a fictional secret society based on the Molly Maguires.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories about the fictional protagonist detective Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1892, it comprises stories first published in The Strand Magazine. The stories, as told by Watson, are not in chronological order, but comprise of Holmes ideology of trying to correct social injustices.

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Round the Fire Stories is a collection of seventeen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories originally published in 1908, they are meant to be read, "round the fire" upon a winter's night. Murder, mystery, ghosts and ghouls fill the pages of this classical set of stories. They are:
I. The Leather Funnel
II. The Beetle Hunter
III. The Man with the Watches
IV. The Pot of Caviare
V. The Japanned Box
VI. The Black Doctor
VII. Playing with Fire
VIII. The Jews' Breastplate
IX. The Lost Special
X. The Club-Footed Grocer...

Danger And other stories is a collection of short stories by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that were published shortly before the onset of WWI. It contains:
Danger Being the Log of Captain John Sirius
One Crowded Hour
A Point of View
The Fall of Lord Barrymore
The Horror of the Heights
Borrowed Scenes
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
How It Happened
The Prisoner's Defence
Three of Them

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This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin, edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, makes available in English for the first time the transcription and translation of the most comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian.

The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge.

Volume 1 of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it...