Böcker av Conan Doyle

From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challening for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction.

Der Titel 'Die verlorene Welt' ist der Band 9 in der Buchreihe 'Historical Diamond'. Der britische Autor Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle war Arzt. Seine Praxis in Southsea/Portsmouth ließ ihm aber genügend Zeit noch Romane zu schreiben. Bekannt sind seine Sherlock-Holmes-Geschichten. Neben Kriminalgeschichten schrieb er Abenteuerromane. In dieser Buchreihe werden die Juwelen bedeutender klassischer Autoren in einer qualitativ hochwertigen, aber preiswerten Buchausgabe in ungekürzter Fassung neu herausgegeben. Das Themenspektrum umfasst spannende Romane, u. a. historische Romane, Krimis, Fiktion, Abenteuer und Entdeckungsreisen.

Miss Mary Morstan has a strange story to tell. Since her father disappeared, she has received a large pearl through the post on the same day, every year, for six years. Who is sending them? And what about her father's paper with the words 'The Sign of Four' written on it? Sherlock Holmes alone can solve these mysteries.