Par un soir d'hiver, alors que Holmes et Watson se trouvent au 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes decide de narrer a son ami sa toute premiere enquete, alors qu'il etait encore etudiant a l'universite. Holmes explique ainsi qu'a cette epoque, il etait devenu camarade avec un denomme Victor Trevor, qui l'avait par la suite invite a passer un mois de vacances chez son pere, dans le Norfolk. Alors que le sejour avait parfaitement debute, la quietude de la demeure s'etait rapidement troublee par la venue inattendue d'un homme du nom d'Hudson, une vieille connaissance du pere de Victor Trevor....

Sherlock Holmes ne mene pas l'enquete en temps reel mais la raconte a son fidele ami Watson. Le rituel Musgrave se presente sous la forme d'une feuille sur laquelle on peut lire: - A qui appartenait-elle? - A celui qui est parti. - Qui doit l'avoir? - Celui qui viendra. - Quel etait le mois? - Le sixieme en parlant du premier. - Ou etait le soleil? - Au-dessus du chene. - Ou etait l'ombre? - Sous l'orme. - Comment y avancer? - Au nord par dix et par dix, a l'est par cinq et par cinq, au sud par deux et par deux, a l'ouest par un et par un et ainsi dessous. - Que donnerons-nous en echange? -...

Le docteur Watson recoit une lettre d'un ancien camarade d'ecole nomme Percy Phelps, travaillant au Foreign Office sous les ordres de son oncle Lord Holdhurst. Phelps explique que sa carriere est en mauvaise posture a cause d'une grave affaire, et implore que Sherlock Holmes vienne le voir chez lui a Woking ou il est alite depuis deux mois. En effet, le 23 mai, alors que Phelps etait au bureau des Affaires etrangeres comme chaque jour, son oncle lui a remis un traite naval secret passe entre l'Angleterre et l'Italie dont il devait recopier chacun des articles..."

A collection of classic short stories written by some of the world's best-loved authors and giants of literature, this book contains some of the most popular short stories ever written. The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Adventure of the Devil's Foot by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire by Jack...

This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem." Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal.

The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written.

I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read. Setting aside historical works or the biographies of the leaders there is a mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men themselves, which describes their feelings and their experiences, stated always from the point of view of the particular branch of the service to which they belonged. The Cavalry were...

Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first 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...