Arthur Conan Doyle
Author
Series
Publisher
Hesperus
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The legendary Professor Challenger hits the headlines once again when he claims that the Earth is heading towards inevitable destruction. Is this a strange ruse of the Professor's or is total annihilation really only hours away?
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This selection of 12 of the best Sherlock Holmes stories is designed to give a full sense of their world, taking Holmes's career from its early days to its close. It includes the book-length 'The Sign of the Four' and notes by Barry McCrea that give a sense of the different currents running beneath the stories' surface.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious speckled band, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought he was dead, but three years later he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases feature in this book.
7) The last bow
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Dr Watson records stories which reveal the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective, similar only in that they exhibit those unusual and outre features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers.
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to Baskerville Hall safe from danger.