My first interview with Dr. James Winter was under dramatic circumstances. It occurred at two in the morning in the bedroom of an old country house. I kicked him twice on the white waistcoat and knocked off his gold spectacles, while he with the aid of a female accomplice stifled my angry cries in a flannel petticoat and thrust me into a warm bath. I am told that one of my parents, who happened to be present, remarked in a whisper that there was nothing the matter with my lungs. I cannot recall how Dr. Winter looked at the time, for I had other things to think of, but his description of my...

Detective Sherlock Holmes is called to action again to investigate the mysterious murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. Assisted by his faithful colleague, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes investigates the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of Sir Baskerville. Nothing is what it appears to be in this fascinating tale, which ultimately results in an unforgettable climax.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The explorers nd themselves in a horrifying predicament when they are isolated on the plateau with seemingly no means of escape. On the plateau they nd dinosaur life in abundance. Strangely enough, they also nd both ape-like and homo-sapien-like men who are coexisting with the dinosaurs. It is the depiction of prehistoric life that is fascinating and brings the book to...

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex - rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set largely outdoors in the wilds of South America. Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World - Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee - to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. On arrival...

Round the Fire Stories is a volume collecting 17 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle rst published in 1908 by Smith, Elder & Co. (UK), and the same year by McClure (US). As Conan Doyle wrote in his preface, this volume include stories concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible. Round the Fire Stories shows Arthur Conan Doyle at his nest. These seventeen tales of suspense, murder, ghosts, unsolved crimes and inexplicable happenings were written to be read 'round the re' on a winter's night. With intriguing titles such as 'The Pot of Caviare', 'The Brazilian Cat' and 'The Brown...

A Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his -study in scarlet- -There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.-

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922 by John Murray. The collection is divided in two parts: Tales of Terror with horror stories, and Tales of Mystery with stories with strange schemes. Tales of Terror: The Horror of the Heights, The Leather Funnel, The New Catacomb, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Terror of Blue John Gap, The Brazilian Cat. Tales of Mystery: The Lost Special, The Beetle-Hunter, The Man with the Watches, The Japanned Box, The Black Doctor, The Jew's Breastplate. This classic title has been...

The Mystery of Cloomber is a novel by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scot who has moved with his family from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the estate of his father's half brother, William Farintosh. Near their residence, Branksome, is Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom...

Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle rst published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of- age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors, and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, such as Jem Belcher, John...

The collection's title story, -Danger Being the Log of Captain John Sirius-, was written by Arthur Conan Doyle 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and rst published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe ghting - and defeating - Britain, and is intended to direct public attention to the great danger (submarines) which threatened the country. The other stories in this collection are: - -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...