Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 439 books

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...

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...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. El presente volumen recoge las cuatro novelas protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, el emblemático y perspicaz detective del 221 B de Baker Street: Estudio en escarlata (1887), El signo de los cuatro (1890), El perro de los Baskerville (1902) y El valle del...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos El presente volumen recoge las tres colecciones de relatos que completan en canon holmesiano: El regreso de Sherlock Holmes (1907), Su último saludo (1917) y El archivo de Sherlock Holmes (1927). Tras volver de una muerte que nunca tuvo lugar, Holmes sigue...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos El presente volumen recoge las dos primeras colecciones de relatos del canon holmesiano: Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892) y Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes (1894). Aquí se dan cita algunos de los más célebres cuentos de misterio protagonizados por...

In “The Adventure of the Three Students”, Holmes and Watson, on a research trip in a university town, are approached by a professor. The professor believes someone has entered his office and seen, and perhaps copied, the examination papers he is to administer the next day. Holmes begins by narrowing...

Throughout the annals of literature there is one detective who reigns supreme — Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street, London. From that celebrated address, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson set out to solve the most difficult cases and bring to justice the master criminals of Victorian England. Now...

In “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, a young woman explains to Holmes that an unknown man has been following her by bicycle on her weekly trips from the house where she works to the railroad station. Having met two friends of her recently-deceased uncle, one of the men, Carruthers, hires...

When one of the members of the Baskerville family suddenly dies, Sherlock Holmes arrives on the scene with his assistant Holmes to investigate. Has the notorious Baskerville family curse struck again … or, is another suspect at bay? Using acute deductive logic and uncanny observation, Detective Holmes unravels the mystery in this hair-raising classic.

Professor Challenger's claims of dinosaurs living in twentieth-century South America may seem outlandish, but even skeptics become believers in The Lost World (1912). Part adventure story, part science fiction, The Lost World generates motifs and characters that have such long-lasting popular appeal that they constantly reappear in today's fiction, film, and television.