Résultats pour "Sherlock Holmes" dans Fiction

1890. Peu avant Noël, Sherlock Holmes et John Watson reçoivent à Baker Street la visite d'une nouvelle cliente. Eve Allerthorpe, fille aînée d'une dynastie prestigieuse mais quelque peu excentrique du Yorkshire, se trouve dans une profonde détresse : elle se croit possédée par un démoniaque esprit de Noël. Eve doit hériter d'une fortune à condition d'être saine d'esprit, mais il semble que quelque chose - ou quelqu'un - menace son équilibre mental.

Automne 1880. Le Dr John Watson rentre d'Afghanistan. Blessé et prêt à tout pour oublier son passé, Watson voit sa vie changer lorsqu'il rencontre Sherlock Holmes. Le détective enquête sur une série de décès survenus dans le quartier londonien de Shadwell. Des victimes qui semblent mortes d'avoir été affamées pendant des semaines ont été retrouvées, alors qu'elles ont été vues en bonne santé à peine quelques jours plus tôt. Holmes établit un lien entre les morts et un sinistre baron de la drogue qui cherche à étendre son empire criminel.

Conscient de sa fin imminente, le Dr John Watson se décide enfin à écrire un nouveau récit dévoilant les événements authentiques qui se cachaient jusque-là derrière ses chroniques des exploits de Sherlock Holmes. Dans cet ouvrage, le célèbre détective et son fidèle compagnon affrontent des cadavres ranimés au cimetière de Highgate, rencontrent une Irene Adler très différente, quoique toujours aussi insaisissable, enquêtent sur des cas de démence dans les étendues glacées du Grand Nord, découvrent d'inquiétantes machines organiques.

Automne 1910. Voici longtemps que Sherlock Holmes et le Dr John Watson combattent R'luhlloig, l'Esprit caché lié au professeur James Moriarty. L'Europe glisse vers la guerre, et un autre conflit, d'ampleur cosmique, approche de son point culminant ; en une nuit, les membres du Club Diogène connaissent une mort atroce. Holmes soupçonne un espion allemand qui travaille pour R'luhlloig… Retranché sur la côte anglaise, le duo est confronté à une nouvelle menace. Trois femmes ont disparu de la ville de Newford.

In this thrilling supernatural mystery, Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula must join forces to banish a terrible enemy. Sherlock Holmes is dead. His body lies in a solitary grave on the Sussex Downs, England. But Dr. Watson survives and is now given permission to release tales in Sherlock’s “classified dossier”, those cases that are, dear listener, unbelievable - for their subject matter is of the most outré and grotesque nature.

In The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Inspector Lestrade consults Sherlock Holmes about a peculiar series of incidents—someone is smashing plaster busts of Napoleon across London. The first bust is destroyed in Morse Hudson's shop, and two more, previously sold to Dr. Barnicot, are also smashed after burglaries at his home and office. Holmes observes the pattern of the smashed busts and deduces that the destruction is not random but connected to a hidden object inside the busts.

A young woman begs Sherlock Holmes to help find her missing fiancé, but the great detective makes an uncharacteristic mistake. Then Sherlock’s daughter, Lucy James, takes on a missing-person case of her own, but she must also keep a vicious criminal away from Becky, Lucy’s 10-year-old sister-in-law. Little Becky soon becomes dangerously involved in both cases. No one foresees the devastating news that Sherlock Holmes has been murdered.  

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detectives ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule...

The Arsène Lupin & Sherlock Holmes Collection offers the extraordinary – and often perilous – stories of two of the most intriguing and iconic fictional characters in crime fiction, brilliantly narrated by Jonathan Keeble and Rupert Degas.

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales published individually between 1908 and 1917. It also contains one early story, 1892's "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", which, with its themes of adultery, was previously considered too "scandalous" for American audiences.

The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads us through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and biographer Dr. Watson to investigate the mystery of a beast terrorizing the neighborhood.

Sejak muncul pertama kali tahun 1887, Sherlock Holmes menjadi tokoh fiksi yang paling fenomenal. Dia menjadi jagoan klasik yang legendaris dan menginspirasi dalam budaya pop bahkan hingga abad ke-21. Bersama Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes memecahkan kasus-kasus rumit berdasarkan kemampuannya...

It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe, eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.

Dalam Koleksi Kasus Sherlock Holmes 1, kita dikejutkan dengan tewasnya detektif fenomenal itu akibat duel maut dengan Dr. Moriarty di Air Terjun Reichenbach. Membuat Dr. Watson harus memecahkan kasus-kasus pelik seorang diri. Didesak oleh para pencinta novel misteri, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

Cuando sir Arthur Conan Doyle convirtió en personaje popular su Sherlock Holmes, el público incondicional, habituado a leer novelas por entregas en los periódicos y revistas, demandó vorazmente nuevas historias ingeniosas y divertidas. Su autor, que sin duda prefería el relato corto a la...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue their astounding adventures in this second chronicle of short-story mysteries. Notable are two characters here introduced that prove themselves invaluable to the Sherlock Holmes canon: Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock's older brother) and the nefarious Professor Moriarty.

Recognised as the ultimate dramatisation of Conan Doyle's famous stories, these recordings have been acclaimed since their reissue by Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks in 1995. They have been carefully remastered so that the sound is as good as possible without destroying the unique ambience of the original performances.

What if the darkness of Lovecraft’s decadent New England overlapped into the Victorian era of Sherlock Holmes? What if a trail of clues led to impossible visions, malevolent gods, and unspeakably eldritch vistas of terror? Could Holmes survive? Could his sanity survive? Twenty-five new stories across two volumes pit Holmes and Watson against myriad nightmares from Lovecraft’s fiction––and against those nightmares which his writings have inspired.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The best of the Holmes novels!

It’s 1929 and an aging Dr. John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes’s exploits. In these pages, Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion encounter reanimated corpses in Highgate Cemetery; a very different, though ever elusive, Irene Adler; tales of madness and murder in the frozen wastes of the north; grotesque organic machines; and much more.