ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Sherlock Holmes, personaje ficticio creado en 1887 por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , es un detective asesor del Londres de finales del siglo xix, que destaca por su inteligencia y hábil uso de la observación y el razonamiento deductivo para resolver casos difíciles. Es el prototipo de investigador cerebral por excelencia, e influyó en gran medida en...

Pocas veces en la historia de la literatura un personaje de ficción alcanza tal celebridad que incluso oscurece la figura de su propio creador; 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 se...

De modo que usted, sin salir de su habitación, es capaz de aclarar situaciones que otros son incapaces de explicarse, a pesar de que han visto por sí mismos todos los detalles. —Así es. Poseo una especie de intuición en ese sentido. De cuando en cuando se presenta un caso de mayor complejidad. Cuando eso ocurre, tengo que moverme para ver ...

In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs. We owe 1902's The Hound of t...

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family?s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hou...

From The Adventure of the Gloria Scott to His Last Bow we follow the illustrious career of this quintessential British hero from his university days to his final case. Sherlock Holmes's efforts to uncover the truth take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legend...

Sherlock Holmes había dado ya muestras de su genio en Estudio en Escarlata y en El signo de los cuatro, pero los lectores no se dieron cuenta de su genialidad. Entonces a Conan Doyle —¿a Watson?— se le ocurrió la brillante idea de pasear al detective por una serie de relatos cortos. Empezó publicándolos en la revista Strand en julio de 1891. En ...

Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity. The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the height of his powers. Problems involving a ...

Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including - "A Scandal in Bohemia", "A Case of Identity", "The Red-Headed League" and "The Boscombe Valley Mystery".

This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The ...