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"Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes" d'Arthur Conan Doyle est une collection de douze nouvelles mettant en scène le célèbre détective Sherlock Holmes et son fidèle ami le Dr John Watson. Publiées pour la première fois entre 1892 et 1893, ces histoires captivantes présentent Holmes résolvant divers mystères grâce à sa brillante faculté de déduction. Chaque nouvelle offre une intrigue unique, des personnages bien développés et une résolution astucieuse, établissant ainsi la renommée de Holmes comme le plus grand détective de la littérature. "Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes" demeurent un incontournable du genre policier, offrant aux lecteurs une immersion passionnante dans l'univers du mystère et de l'enquête.

"La Grande Ombre" d'Arthur Conan Doyle, oeuvre du domaine public, transporte les lecteurs dans un monde d'aventures et de mystères. L'auteur, célèbre pour ses histoires de Sherlock Holmes, offre ici une narration captivante qui explore les thèmes de l'intrigue, de l'amitié et de la bravoure. L'intrigue se déroule dans des décors exotiques et met en scène des personnages aux destins entrelacés, créant une atmosphère immersive. "La Grande Ombre" témoigne du talent de Conan Doyle à captiver son public avec des récits qui allient suspense, émotion et réflexion.

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Sportsman, doctor, historian and writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) created one of the most enduring - indeed, legendary - characters in English literature: Sherlock Holmes, the brilliantly observational denizen of 221B Baker Street. Conan Doyle was born of Irish parents in Edinburgh and educated partly in Great Britain and partly in Germany. He qualified as a medical doctor in Southsea, but the absence of both patients and revenue persuaded him, as he himself has related, to turn his daydreams into imaginative writings. The result was a true stroke of genius, the creation of the great detective and his honest, down-to-earth colleague and 'chronicler', Dr Watson. In addition to his works of fiction, Conan Doyle was also a superb physical specimen and an avid boxer. In 1894 at Davos, Switzerland, he invented and subsequently popularized the concept of skiing as a sport. He also served as an army doctor in the war between England and the Boers of South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote a history of that war and was appointed official War Historian of the 1914-18 World War. His keen sense of justice involved him in two notorious cases of mistaken identity, those of Edaljee in 1903 and Oscar Slater in 1909. Conan Doyle personally, at his own expense, fought the courts on behalf of these two men, both total strangers to him, because he felt that they had been wrongfully convicted. Conan Doyle was an idealist who believed in his country and 'fair play'. In his writings, women tend to be modest, charming, faithful, beautiful and in need of defence. Gentlemen are honest, altruistic, gallant and brilliant. But Conan Doyle's fertile brain also conjured up an opposing criminal class of extraordinary depravity and ingenuity, led by the diabolical and brilliant Professor Moriarty, Holmes's arch enemy. From Buzan's Book of Genius, by Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene.

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy's son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story.

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'On his rigid face was an expression of horror and hatred such as I had never seen before upon human features.'

Upon the ground around the body were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

Classic / British English All kinds of people, from shopkeepers to kings, want the help of Sherlock Holmes in these six stories about the adventures of the famous detective. Who put a diamond in a chicken? Why is there a club for men with red hair? How did the man at the lake die? Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mysteries?

'Dinosaurs are most certainly not extinct. I have seen them.'

'I find myself in a very strange and mysterious situation.'

Classic / British English Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes does?

Classic/British English In these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.

This edition of the Sherlock Holmes short stories is one of a series consisting of unabridged versions of 19th-century classics, with introductions, glossaries, and activities for individuals, pairs and groups.