Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. (source: Wikipedia)
Doyle’s first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world’s best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes’s Bo...read more »
The book is a glorious effort on the part of the author to record the impressions that he formed during his visit to the fronts of the Western Allies du...read more »
Careening was a very necessary operation for the old pirate. On his superior speed he depended both for overhauling the trader and escaping the man-of-w...read more »
The greatest detective of them all is back…About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and...read more »
The memoirs are overshadowed by the event with which they close—the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, ...read more »
This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescend...read more »
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of e...read more »
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Gerard is an anthology of short stories about the heroics of a Hussar of the French army who lived from the 1780s...read more »
A colonel receives five seeds in the mail–and dies within weeks. A young bride disappears immediately after her wedding. An old hat and a Christmas goos...read more »
Read the final twelve stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. It is perhaps the most unusual and certainly the darkest coll...read more »
The Disintegration Machine is a short story written about Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger is arguing with people wh...read more »
Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. ...read more »
The third novel in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger series, The Land of Mist, is heavily influenced by Doyle’s growing belief in Spiritualism a...read more »
Long before Michael Crichton’s high-tech dinosaurs roamed the bestseller lists, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle envisioned an isolated land of prehistoric life t...read more »
Austin Gilroy, a physiology student, is introduced to a Miss Penclosa, a cripple who allegedly has psychic powers. After a convincing experiment of Miss...read more »
The legendary Professor Challenger hits the headlines once again. In a letter to The Times, he asserts that a change in the earth’s cosmic surroundings ...read more »
When Sherlock Holmes met his demise in The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in 1893, the distress of the unsuspecting reading public was profou...read more »
When an Englishwoman receives mysterious gifts of pearls and a letter promising to right wrongs done to her, she calls upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wats...read more »
Only Holmes and Watson can get to the bottom of this baffling murder mystery. John Douglas is found in his study blasted faceless with a sawn-off shotgu...read more »
The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years during the Hundred Years’ War (1366/67), against the background of the campaign of Edward, ...read more »
Professor Challenger drills into the earth until he reaches the mantle, convinced that it is a sentient being and that by doing so he will be the first ...read more »