Returning injured from Afghanistan, former Army Doctor John Watson is introduced to the extraordinary figure, the world's only consulting detctive, Sherlock Holmes. Watson becomes Holmes' flatmate, friend and assistant in what would become the first extraordinary case in a long and astonishing career. This is where the legend of Sherlock Holmes begins: his first case... A Study in Scarlet.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than mysteries and historical novels. Doyle's supernatural literature varied from Jamesian ghost stories to Lovecraftian cosmic horror and disturbing psychological thrillers, and included the introduction of a new type of monster, the reanimated Egyptian mummy. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story. In this volume you will find a complete collection of his supernatural short stories.

"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro," which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes."

WARNING THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY HISTORY BOOK ABOUT THE FRENCH MARTYR JOAN OF ARC . . .

INSTEAD THIS WORK HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED ACROSS TIME AND SPACE THROUGH A FRENCH MEDIUM AND TRANSLATED BY THE CREATOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. . .

-- It may be a book that Joan of Arc helped to write herself. For how did mysterious disembodied voices lead a young French peasant girl to military leadership and victories in battle for her beloved France?

For it was not written by the author -- one of the most acclaimed spiritualis mediums of his time -- by "ordinary means" -- instead, it came directly...