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The Poison Belt is a suspenseful sequel to The Lost World, where Professor Challenger gathers his fellow explorers to witness a terrifying event. As Earth moves through a deadly region of space, humanity faces mass extinction. Can they find a way to survive, or is this the end? A gripping mix of science fiction, philosophy, and adventure.

A spine-tingling collection of weird and wonderful horror stories, featuring ghosts, curses, strange phenomena, ghouls, black magic, and demonic apparitions. Do you dare to listen?

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.

Jefferson Hope qui est étranger aux mormons va tenter de se marier avec une fille de la communauté de Salt Lake City. Leur union est impossible et ils vont s'enfuir avec le père de la jeune femme. Deux hommes de la communauté vont les prendre en chasse et les assassiner. Un jour, Sherlock Holmes reçoit une lettre de Tobias Gregson, un des limiers de Scotland Yard, qui lui demande de l'aide dans une affaire de meurtre : un cadavre a été découvert.

Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es un libro que recopila cuentos policíacos 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. Aquí se cuentan las primeras aventuras de Sherlock Holmes.

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett), Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova), Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

CSA's third collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories is read by Edward Hardwicke, who played Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada TV¿s popular series broadcast in the early 1990s.

Sixteen classic stories.

Sherlock Holmes und sein guter Freund und langjähriger Mitbewohner, Dr. John Watson, bilden ein unzertrennliches Ermittlerpaar – bis Watson im Zuge des Falles „Im Zeichen der Vier" Miss Mary Morstan kennenlernt, sich in sie verliebt und sie schließlich heiratet. In der Folge ist Watson für eine Zeit lang ganz vom Eheleben eingenommen, beziehungsweise von seinen neuen beruflichen Aufgaben als Hausarzt.

CSA's fourth collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories is read by Edward Hardwicke, who played Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada TV's popular series broadcast in the early 1990s.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program.

A cryptic message. A missing treasure. And a mystery that only Sherlock Holmes can solve. In The Sign of the Four, Arthur Conan Doyle delivers one of the most compelling cases in the Sherlock Holmes canon. When a young woman seeks help after a series of strange and unexplained events, Holmes and...

From mystery and crime to romance and tragedy, in this collection you will discover award-winning writing that effortlessly spans genre and style. Witness the excess and luxury of 1920s America in The Great Gatsby, experience profound meditations on death in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, as well as Poirot's very first murder case in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Call of the Wild, by Jack London; The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes; The Great Gatsby, by F.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World begins with Edward, a self-assured newspaper reporter who believes that the woman he admires, Gladys, will undoubtedly agree to his marriage proposal. To his utter shock and amazement, Gladys stops "Ned" from proposing and announces that she can't marry him because he does not have the characteristics of her ideal man. In order to gain her hand in marriage, Edward seeks to become someone of merit and value....

When Holmes is asked to look into a cryptic message received by Mary Morstan, neither he nor Watson expect to be drawn into a decades-old web of betrayal. Soon they're conducting dangerous moonlit expeditions to uncover the meaning of the sign of the four, and resolve a long-buried crime.

Once again, the master detective must solve three tricky cases. What's behind the School of Crime in London? No one believes in a werewolf at Blackwood Castle? But what secret lies hidden there? Although the case of the Black Abbot is supposed to be over three hundred years old, a sinister monk is once again up to no good in the old abbey.

This wonderful collection of Sherlock Holmes' adventures, performed by David Ian Davies, includes "Valley of Fear", "Charles Augustus Milverton", "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", and more.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. Contained within this collection are the following tales: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program.

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 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in 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).