The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife. The skeptical Gilroy's fiancee, Agatha, is put into a trance to prove Miss Penclosa's powers. This succeeds and Gilroy begins to go to the Professor's house where Miss Penclosa practices her powers on him . This is so Gilroy can look at the physical part of the powers. Miss Penclosa 'falls in love' with the...

"The Adventure of the Red Circle" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow.

Featuring: "Highway J" by Charles Eric Maine Does science fiction hold the solution to illegal immigration? What becomes of a hapless scientist when his time-travel break-through makes him Public Enemy No. 1 in the 25th Century? What happens when finds himself the unwitting architect of the biggest migration of all -- through time itself? Can authorities build a wall in the time stream? Also in this issue: "The Hideout" by Ron Fortier -- They planned to catch Brother Bones, the undead avenger, off-guard. "Death of a Pulp Writer" by Patti Boeckman "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle...

The Adventure of the Empty House The Adventure of the Norwood Builder The Adventure of the Dancing Men (audiobook) The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist The Adventure of the Priory School The Adventure Of Black Peter The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton The Adventure of the Six Napoleons The Adventure of the Three Students The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter The Adventure of the Abbey Grange The Adventure of the Second Stain Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), es quiza el caso paradigmatico del escritor que abordo todos los generos literarios con singular destreza, creando ademas personajes inolvidables. Sherlock Holmes, en la literatura de crimen y misterio; el profesor C."

Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es un libro que recopila cuentos policiacos escritos por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle en donde el protagonista es su celebre detective privado "Sherlock Holmes." El libro original fue ilustrado por Sidney Paget. Aqui se cuentan las primeras aventuras de Sherlock Holmes."

THE SIGN OF FOUR is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The SIGN OF THE FOUR has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A STUDY IN SCARLET (1887).
In 1888 a...