Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

En "La catacumba nueva", Arthur Conan Doyle, nos cuenta la historia de Kennedy y Burger, dos c lebres estudiosos del arte de la antigua Roma que, al modo de un Edward Bellingham y un William M. Lee en "La momia" (1892) o un Sherlock Holmes y el dr. Watson (siempre suele haber una pareja protagonista en los relatos de Doyle), representan el d a y la noche en cuanto a sus caracter sticas y personalidad: mientras Kennedy ha tenido una vida f cil y es un tipo sociable, Julius Burger se lo ha tenido que ganar todo con mucho esfuerzo, y eso no le ha dejado tiempo para cultivar las relaciones sociales, que desprecia.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts-as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long? All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards. It had been no sudden call. A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide. So urgent a message had not been issued within the memory of old lay-brother Athanasius, who had cleaned the Abbey knocker since the year after the Battle of Bannockburn.

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of 12 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1923. In some of the stories in "Tales of Terror and Mystery", a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror. In others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to a horrific conclusion. All stories definitely promise you an entire world of intriguing characters written in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's typical genius style. Tales of Terror The Horror of the Heights The Leather Funnel The New Catacomb The Case of Lady Sannox The Terror of Blue John Gap The Brazilian Cat Tales of Mystery The Lost Special The Beetle-Hunter The Man with the Watches The Japanned Box The Black Doctor The Jew's Breastplate

First appearing in The Strand magazine from 1893-1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes brings the Great Detective into conflict with arch foe, Professor Moriarty, and was intended to be Holmes