Arthur Conan Doyle: 1906 books

Extrait du livre : – J'incline à penser… commençai-je. – Et moi donc ! coupa brutalement Sherlock Holmes. J'ai beau me compter parmi les mortels les plus indulgents de la terre, le sens ironique de cette interruption me fut désagréable....

Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail.

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I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ‘95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble...

In The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, a banker, Mr. Alexander Holder, makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves a beryl coronet — one of the most valuable public possessions in existence — as collateral. Feeling that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of...

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street, but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning some seven or eight years ago and gave Mr. Sherlock Holmes a puzzled quarter of an hour. It was addressed to him, and ran thus:— “Please...

Since these papers have been put into my hands to edit, I will begin by reminding the public of the sad loss of the steamship Stratford, which started a year ago upon a voyage for the purpose of oceanography and the study of deep-sea life. The expedition had been organized by Dr. Maracot, the famous...

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves. I remember the date very well, for it was in the...

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed...

Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus’s dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it. The public not...

Le Pr Challenger pressent qu'une catastrophe dont l'origine serait une transformation de l'éther dans lequel flotte notre système planétaire, menace l'humanité. Déjà, une épidémie mystérieuse frappe les habitants de Sumatra. Le Pr Challenger invite ses amis de l'expédition dans Le monde...

LA gran campana del monasterio de Belmonte dejaba oir sus sonoros tañidos por todo el valle y aun más allá de la obscura línea formada por los bosques. Los leñadores y carboneros que trabajaban por la parte de Vernel y los pescadores del río Lande, suspendían momentáneamente sus tareas para dirigirse...