In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall.

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 they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course of his researches into various phenomena, Challenger has predicted that the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether which, based on its effect on the people of Sumatra earlier in the day, he expects to stifle humanity. Challenger seals them in the room with cylinders of...

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called 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...

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer, and his Sherlock Holmes stories, while the best known of his work, were only a fraction of what he wrote. This book is a collection of twelve short stories broken up into two topics; six stories on terror and six on mystery.
Doyle didn't write too many mystery stories that did NOT involve Sherlock Holmes, and these are some of them. As is well-known, Doyle was a fanatic spiritualist, and many of the tales of terror deal with some strange stuff -...

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A Bigger Challenge for Professor Challenger
In this book, the intrepid foursome who encountered pre-historic dinosaurs in "The Lost World" are brought together to face an even bigger challenge...the death of the human race...and all other species on Earth
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'....

The entire series of Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is now available in large print, using the best practices for readers who are visually impaired and seniors. Each story includes the original Sherlock Holmes mystery as well as a note from the series editor, Craig Stephen Copland, the author of the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries books. The Boscombe Valley Mystery was the sixth Sherlock Holmes story to appear. In it a young man has been accused, based on circumstantial evidence, of murdering his father. Seeing past the false assumptions, collecting clues and putting them...

Jabez Wilson, petit preteur sur gages, qui tient une modeste boutique au coin de Saxe Coburg Square a Londres, demande l'aide de Sherlock Holmes apres avoir integre une certaine Ligue des Rouquins, pretendument financee par l'heritage d'un excentrique milliardaire americain decede sans enfants et anime d'un etrange esprit philanthropique envers les rouquins comme lui. En effet, quelques semaines auparavant son jeune assistant, Vincent Spaulding, un etrange personnage, se comportant en employe zele, qu'il a embauche a un salaire ridiculement bas lui a montre une annonce ou il etait ecrit que...

En 1889, le docteur Watson est appele tard dans la nuit par Mme Whitney, une amie de sa femme. Son mari a disparu depuis plusieurs jours et, comme il est opiomane, elle est sure qu'il a ete se droguer dans une dangereuse fumerie d'opium de l'East End de Londres. La disparition de M. Neville Saint-Clair, homme d'affaires respectable et ponctuel, est d'autant plus mysterieuse que Mme Saint-Clair est tout a fait sure de l'avoir vu a la fenetre du second etage d'une fumerie d'opium de l'Upper Swandam Lane, pres des quais. Il s'eloigna immediatement de la fenetre, et Mme Saint-Clair fut convaincue...

Mary Sutherland vient demander a Sherlock Holmes de retrouver son fiance Hosmer Angel, qui a mysterieusement disparu alors qu'ils allaient se marier. L'affaire est tres simple: le detective n'a pas manque de voir que la jeune fille ne rencontrait son soupirant qu'en l'absence de son beau-pere, courtier en vins. Il est clair que le fameux Hosmer Angel n'est que le beau-pere deguise et cela dans le but d'empecher sa belle-fille de quitter le domicile; ce qui lui aurait fait perdre - a lui et a sa femme, qu'il a epouse pour son argent - une assez grosse somme. La disparition dramatique du fiance...

En septembre 1887, John Openshaw se rendit au domicile de Sherlock Holmes afin de lui exposer les faits etranges entourant la mort de son oncle Elias et de son pere Joseph. Un jour, Elias Openshaw recut par la poste une lettre contenant cinq pepins d'orange. Il sut immediatement que le destin s'approchait de lui. Son neveu John etait nerveux et ne comprenait rien des emotions de son oncle. Or une nuit, son oncle mourut noye dans 60 cm d'eau. Quand son pere prit la propriete de Horsham, il trouva dans la boite au lettre une lettre contenant cinq pepins d'orange ainsi qu'une note disant: Mettez...