El aristocrata solteron es uno de los 56 relatos cortos sobre los casos policiales de Sherlock Holmes, escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle y que luego compondra el volumen de historia de Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. En este relato, Sherlock Holmes es contactado por Lord Robert St. Simon, quien le pide que le ayude a encontrar a su novia que desaparecio de su casa en el dia de su matrimonio. El era un soltero que a los 41 anos conocio a su futura esposa, la senorita Hatty Doran durante un viaje a los Estados Unidos que tuvo lugar hace un ano. Esta era la hija de propietario de una mina en...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. 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...

When the beautiful Mary Morstan who has received mysterious pearls in the mail is asked to meet her correspondent, Holmes and Watson are called in on the case, and Watson instantly falls in love. A terrible death and vanishing treasure lead to an epic chase through the foggy London streets at dawn and along the River Thames in this spellbinding mystery, which also reveals some of the oddities about Sherlock Holmes. One of the very best Holmes stories from Conan Soyles's hand.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary field of crime fiction and made the name Sherlock Holmes synonymous with detectives. Aside from the Sherlock Holmes stories, he was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

A delight for a public which enjoys incident, mystery, and above all that matching of the wits of a clever man against the dumb resistance of the secrecy of inanimate things, which results in the triumph of the human intelligence. Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard...