Arthur Conan DOYLE

Il vit à Londres, au 221B Baker Street, à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Il a des idées un peu bizarres... Il se passionne pour certaines branches de la science. Il est assez calé en anatomie, est un chimiste de premier ordre qui, malgré des études très décousues et excentriques, a ammassé des tas de connaissances peu ordinaires. Il n'est pas aisé de le faire parler, bien qu'il puisse être assez expansif quand l'envie lui en prend. Il joue du violon. Il a un métier : dénouer les énigmes étranges auxquelles il est le seul à pouvoir apporter une solution. Il a un défaut : il affectionne les drogues. Il a un ami : le docteur Watson, témoin et narrateur de ses aventures. Son créateur, Arthur Conan Doyle, a inventé le roman policier moderne. Il s'appelle Sherlock Holmes.

Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. THIS BOOK ALSO INCLUDES:THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLISTHolmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died, and left his wife and daughter rather poor. The specific thing that has brought Violet to seek Holmes's services, however, is the strange man who follows her on his bicycle as she cycles to and from the railway station for her weekend visits to her mother. The strange man always keeps his distance behind her and disappears without a trace, never letting her near him, and always along the same lonely stretch of road.

Illustrated Classics Vol. 147

The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Illustrated)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

THE ADVENTURE OF THE YELLOW FACE"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson; "...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered."INCLUDING: THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOLHolmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.

Illustrated Classics Vol. 125

The Adventure of the Yellow Face

Il vit à Londres, au 221 B Baker Street à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Il a des idées un peu bizarres... Il se passionne pour certaines branches de la science. Il est assez calé en anatomie, est un chimiste de premier ordre qui, malgré des études très décousues et excentriques, a amassé un tas de connaissances peu ordinaires. Il n'est pas aisé de le faire parler, bien qu'il puisse être assez expansif quand l'envie lui en prend. Il joue du violon. Il a un métier : dénouer des énigmes étranges auxquelles il est le seul à pouvoir apporter une solution. Il a un défaut : il affectionne les drogues. Il a un ami : le docteur Watson, témoin et narrateur de ses aventures. Son créateur, Arthur Conan Doyle, a inventé le récit policier moderne. Il s'appelle Sherlock Holmes.  Traduction nouvelle de Eric Wittersheim  Edition bilingue  Illustrations de Sidney Paget On trouvera, dans ce premier volume : Romans - Une étude en rouge - Le Signe des quatre Nouvelles Un scandale en Bohême, La Ligue des rouquins, Une affaire d'identité, Le Mystère de la vallée de Boscombe, Les Cinq Pépins d'orange, L'Homme à la lèvre tordue, L'Escarboucle bleue, La Bande tachetée, Le Pouce de l'ingénieur, L'Aristocrate célibataire, Le Diadème de béryls, Les Hêtres-Dorés, Flamme d'argent, Le Visage jaune, L'Employé de l'agent de change, Le Gloria Scott

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