Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on — in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr. Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Pocas veces en la historia de la literatura un personaje de ficción alcanza tal celebridad que incluso oscurece la figura de su propio creador, y el caso de Sherlock Holmes es uno de los más representativos. Primera novela del mítico detective, “Estudio en escarlata” gira en torno a un crimen cometido en Londres y cuya trama se relaciona con la secta mormona y su cuna, el estado de…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Después de la publicación de su primer caso en «Estudio en escarlata», hubo que esperar tres años para que, en 1890, Sherlock Holmes reanudara su actividad resolviendo el misterio que se le planteaba en «El signo de los cuatro». Novela previa aún a la sucesión de relatos que poco más tarde habrían de catapultar a la celebridad al famoso detective y a su creador,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Penguin English Library edition. As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best — but there are many stories here which would get the vote — ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Penguin English Library edition. Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story — but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose — as if we did then there would be no doubt it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic collection of stories, with an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffatt, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures. Could a woman die of fright alone? And who is the sender of a most grizzly package — two human ears in a box?…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: From the strange case of The Red-Headed League to the extraordinary tale of The Engineer's Thumb, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging, no mystery insoluble, for the immortal detective's unique powers of deduction.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 712) Аннотация: Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, bound in real cloth, with…
Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes does? Penguin Readers — блестящая коллекция художественной литературы, адаптированная к семи уровням сложности языка (от Easystarts до…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 583 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1096) Аннотация: Here, in one exquisitely designed volume, are all 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories about the colourful adventures of Sherlock Holmes. This book features distinctive gilt edging and attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable and collectable, this volume will make an indispensable cornerstone for any home library. It contains every word Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle's most villainous and unusual characters. The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The very first Sherlock Holmes story, «A Study in Scarlet» was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.' Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close — the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a detective story, 'The final Problem' has proved itself an…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 787 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1136) Аннотация: Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful sidekick…