The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241952948 ISBN 13 : 9780241952948

Editeur : Penguin, 2011

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept my own.'In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him.Though Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most bizarre and extraordinary cases - the disappearance of the race horse Silver Blaze, the horrific circumstances of the Greek Interpreter and the curious mystery of the Musgrave Ritual among them - a criminal mastermind is plotting the downfall of the great detective. Half-devil, half-genius, Professor Moriarty leads Holmes and Watson on a grisly cat-and-mouse chase through London and across Europe, culminating in a frightful struggle which will turn the legendary Reichenbach Falls into a water double-grave . . .

Quatrième de couverture :

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic novel, with an introduction by Sherlock writer Steve Thompson, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures.

In this collection of eleven Sherlock Holmes stories, the detective tackles cases ranging from missing race horses to stolen naval treaties; but nothing can prepare him for the challenge of 'The Final Problem' in which Dr Watson takes up his pen 'with a heavy heart' to tell the story of Holmes's most dramatic encounter with his nemesis, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriaty.