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  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget, Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

    eBook (Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky, Oct. 17, 2015)
    This book contains 105 Ilustrations of Sidney Paget.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories, those contained within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told by a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson.
  • The Valley of Fear

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

    eBook (Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky, Oct. 27, 2015)
    This ebook contains illustrations of Arthur Ignatius Keller.The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
  • The Sign of the Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Gutschmidt, Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

    eBook (Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky, Oct. 26, 2015)
    This ebook contains 24 illustrations of Richard Gutschmidt.The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

    eBook (Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky, Oct. 18, 2015)
    This ebook contains 60 illustrations of Sidney Paget. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
  • His Last Bow

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Twidle, Sidney Paget, Joseph Simpson, Walter Stanley Paget, Gilbert Holiday, Alfred Gilbert, Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

    language (Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky, Nov. 12, 2015)
    This ebook contains 50 illustrations of Arthur Twidle, Sidney Paget, Joseph Simpson, Walter Stanley Page, Alec C. Ball, Gilbert Holiday, Sir Alfred Gilbert.His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that as of the date of publication (1917), Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.Earlier editions contain seven stories in total; some later editions of the collection also include an eighth story, "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", which was also included in the first edition of in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) but was dropped from later editions of that book.Five of the stories were published in The Strand Magazine between September 1908 and December 1913.[1][2] The Strand published "The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge" as "A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes" and divided it into two parts, called "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro".[3] Later printings of His Last Bow correct Wistaria to Wisteria.