The Best of Sherlock Holmes - Couverture souple

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460873687 ISBN 13 : 9780460873680

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1993

Synopsis

Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies

The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's ‘Baker Street Dozen’, creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.

Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Recognised as the ultimate dramatisation of Conan Doyle's famous stories, these recordings have been acclaimed since their reissue by Hodder Headline Audiobooks in 1994.They have been carefully remastered so that the sound is as good as possible without destroying the unique ambience of the original performances.

Side One

The Blackmailer

Holmes resorts to some lawbreaking of his own in the pursuit of essential evidence on a powerful blackmailer.

Side Two

A Scandal in Bohemia

A delicate case involving an ardent monarch and an indiscreet photograph leads Holmes to the one person he could not outwit - the beautiful Irene Adler.

Side Three

Silverblaze

Holmes searches for a murderer and and a missing racehorse called Silverblaze.

Side Four

The Speckled Band

Holmes and Watson are entreated by a woman get to the bottom of her sister's horrible and mysterious death.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460873687
• ISBN 13: 9780460873680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Keating H. R. F.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible