This is an account of the wanderings of a spiritualist, geographical and speculative. Should the reader have no interest in psychic things--if indeed any human being can be so foolish as not to be interested in his own nature and fate, --then this is the place to put the book down. It were better also to end the matter now if you have no patience with a go-as-you-please style of narrative, which founds itself upon the conviction that thought may be as interesting as action, and which is bound by its very nature to be intensely personal

Los mejores relatos de Holmes son El signo de los cuatro (1890), Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892), El sabueso de Baskerville (1902) y su ultimo saludo en el escenario (1917), gracias a los cuales se hizo mundialmente famoso y popularizo el genero de la novela policiaca. Surgio, y todavia pervive, el culto al detective Holmes. Gracias a su versatilidad literaria, Conan Doyle tuvo el mismo exito con sus novelas historicas, como Micah Clarke (1888), La compania blanca (1890), Rodney Stone (1896) y Sir Nigel (1906), asi como con su obra de teatro Historia de Waterloo (1894). Durante la...