Arthur Conan Doyle: 1906 books

'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing...

'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing...

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth...

Arthur Conan Doyle è universalmente riconosciuto come uno dei più grandi scrittori britannici e come fondatore del giallo moderno. Ma sarebbe un errore ricordarlo soltanto per le avventure del celebre Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, di tanto in tanto, amava lasciarsi alle spalle le indagini del grande investigatore...

Before the zombie, the werewolf, or the vampire, there was the Mummy. Mummies—linen-wrapped, dried up corpses of pharaohs, queens, priests, musicians, dancers, and everyday people like you and me—lie in maze-like pyramids and tombs. Guarded by jackal-headed Anubis, god of the dead, mummies wait...

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War Strategy Six Pack 5 presents a smart sextet of tactical texts: A Treatise on Tactics by Francis J. Lippitt A Tale of the English Civil War by G. A. Henty Genghis Khan by Jacob Abbott The Boer War...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'un kısa öykülerinden oluşan bu derleme, hayranlıkla, ama aynı zamanda içiniz ürpererek okuyacağınız hikâyelerle buluşturuyor sizleri. Dünyanın en ünlü dedektifi Sherlock Holmes'u yaratan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'un, aynı tadı veren kısa öyküleri bunlar. Okuru...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ist weltberühmt als Autor der "Sherlock Holmes"-Reihe und des mehrfach verfilmten Romans "Die verlorene Welt". Etwas in Vergessenheit geraten ist Doyles nicht minder geniale und superspannende Erzählung "Die Abenteuer des Brigadiers Gerard",...

When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practice I found that I had engaged myself in a serious task... In 1927, Strand magazine challenged...

Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well-known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

The restless, questing intellect of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spurred him far beyond the ingenious puzzles he constructed for Sherlock Holmes. In The Lost World, Doyle, a devotee of the occult and fantastic tales of adventure and discovery, introduces his readers to Professor Challenger, an eccentric...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. “Sir Nigel” is a historical novel set during the...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. “The Tragedy of the Korosko” (1898) is a novel by...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories...