Arthur Conan Doyle

"L'ultimo saluto" fu publicato nel 1917. In alcuni casi viene pubblicato col titolo "Reminiscenze di Sherlock Holmes" (il titolo originale fu poi cambiato da Conan Doyle, dopo l'aggiunta dell'ultima storia, l'epilogo). Sono presenti nel volume i seguenti racconti: "L'avventura di Wisteria Lodge", "L'avventura della scatola di cartone", "L'avventura del Cerchio Rosso", "L'avventura dei piani Bruce-Partington", "L'avventura del detective morente", "La scomparsa di Lady Frances Carfax", "L'avventura del piede del diavolo", "Il suo ultimo saluto: un Epilogo di Sherlock Holmes".

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is the first series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 5th story of the series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Five Orange Pips". *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art*

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is the first series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the very first story of the series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "A Scandal in Bohemia". *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art*

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is the second series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 7th story of the second series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Crooked Man". *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art*

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is the first series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 9th story of the series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb". *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art*

Ecco qui di seguito una serie di dieci avventure che si concludono con la presunta morte di Holmes: "Il Gloria Scott"; "L'antico formulario"; "L'interprete di greco"; "Sherlock Holmes va in vacanza"; "Un caso coniugale"; "Il trattato navale"; "La grande compagnia Franco-Inglese"; "Il reduce"; "Il socio del dottore"; "Lotta di giganti".

All four of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael DirdaIn 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historical romances, which required the utmost care, this could be dashed off quickly. The first draft, featuring a Mr. Sherrinford Holmes, was a bit rough around the edges, but with a little revision, something astonishing emerged: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and A Study in Scarlet. As if with no warning, they sprung forth from their creator's head, fully-formed in a new style so well-defined it felt immediately like an established genre. Their partnership cemented within pages of the book's opening-the sum of their parts accomplishing far more than they could apart. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivated readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, while Watson remained ever the perfect foil, a classic Victorian gentleman with brilliant intellect. Collected here are all four Holmes novels-A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear-tracing the origins of the pair up through their greatest showdowns with arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. Set in the seductive shadow-world of Victorian London, they are at once an indelible portrait of their time and immortal stories unmarred by passing time. Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented and imitated, they have never been surpassed: the stories of Holmes and Watson lives on as immediate and original in our time as in their own.

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The Lost WorldBySir Arthur Conan DoyleThe 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. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. Edward Malone, a reporter for the Daily Gazette, goes to his news editor, McArdle, to procure a dangerous and adventurous mission in order to impress the woman he loves, Gladys Hungerton. He is sent to interview Professor George Edward Challenger, to determine the truth of his claims about his trip to South America. After a fight with Malone, Challenger reveals his discovery of living dinosaurs in South America, and invites Malone, along with Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton, an adventurer who knows the Amazon, on a trip to prove his story. They reach the plateau with the aid of native guides; but one of these, called Gomez, is the brother of a man that Roxton killed, and isolates the explorers on the dinosaurs' plateau, and their servant Zambo is unable to prevent the rest of the guides from escape.