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Maestro de la lógica, observador preciso y sagaz, de una inteligencia formidable y gran experto en disfraces, regresa en formato de audiolibro. La eterna creación de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, siempre acompañado de su fiel amigo el Doctor Watson. Las pistas, los malos, la sospecha y la intriga se multiplican. A su vez, las conversaciones entre Holmes y Watson, cargadas tanto de reflexiones coherentemente delirantes, como de un pensamiento profundo...
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Un mini-roman plein de suspense et de rebondissements !
Prévenu par la logeuse de Sherlock Holmes, le docteur Watson accourt au chevet du célèbre détective. Sherlock Holmes n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même, il délire et ne laisse pas Watson s'approcher de lui. À force de persuasion, le bon docteur parvient quand même à le raisonner et obtient de lui qu'il voie un spécialiste. Mais Holmes ne veut en voir qu'un : Culverton Smith...
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"The Red-Headed League" is the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. Wilson is hired on the basis of the precise hue of his hair color and performs menial work at a...
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The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with...
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Extrait : "Quand je jette un coup d'œil sur les notes et les résumés qui ont trait aux enquêtes menées par Sherlock Holmes entre les années 82 et 90, j'en retrouve tellement dont les caractéristiques sont à la fois étranges et intéressantes qu'il n'est pas facile de savoir lesquelles choisir et lesquelles omettre."
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Extrait: "Un jour de l'automne dernier, je m'étais rendu chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes. Je l'avais trouvé en conversation sérieuse avec un gentleman d'un certain âge, de forte corpulence, rubicond, et pourvu d'une chevelure d'un rouge flamboyant. Je m'excusai de mon intrusion et j'allais me retirer, lorsque Holmes me tira avec vivacité dans la pièce et referma la porte derrière moi."
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From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a plea for help on a tiny scrap of paper, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.
What is the significance of the arrival in the post one morning of a cardboard packet of children's bricks? Who is the man found dying in a deserted warehouse in London's East End, and what is...
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From the cold-blooded murder of a man well known in London's Bohemian society, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.
Who is it that bangs on the front door of Mr. Lidington's isolated cottage in the dead of night? Why does Henry Barton's job interview proceed in such...
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