The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an...

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As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern border, they are kidnapped by a marauding band of dervishes who demand their conversion to Islam. Cut off from...

Versteckt sich der legendäre Hund von Baskerville im nächtlichen Dartmoor? Wer ist der Mann auf dem Tor und wohin ist der Gefangene aus dem Gefängnis von Princetown verschwunden? Sherlock Holmes dritter und wohl berühmtester Fall ist...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and...

'It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself'. Sherlock Holmes is intrigued and disturbed when he receives an...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) started to write as a doctor, whilst waiting for patients to arrive. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887). The Holmes stories soon attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt...

"Der Hund der Baskervilles", eine der bekanntesten Detektivgeschichten der Welt als Fremdsprachentext im englischen Original:Auf der Familie Baskerville lastet ein dämonischer Fluch. Einst hatte der betrunkene Sir Hugo Baskerville im...

Inspired the by the hugely popular BBC TV adaptation of Sherlock Holmes stories, "Sherlock", starring Benedict Cumberbatch, this is a collectable gift edition of some of Doyle's most popular detective tales, including "The Speckled Band"...

Dieser Sammelband enthält viele Geschichten rund um den Superdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Assistenten Watson. Unter anderem sind enthalten: Die tanzenden Männchen, Die Entführung aus der Klosterschule, Der schwarze Peter, Die...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to...