Bøker av Arthur Conan Doyle

This, the first Sherlock Holmes novel, includes a long section giving the background for the crime being investigated-a lurid tale of murder and forced marriage inspired by the anti-Mormon literature common in Victorian Britain. As a back-handed recognition of this connection to Mormonism, this edition is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for English developed in the Utah portrayed in the book.This is the first full-length novel published in the Deseret Alphabet and the first book published in the Deseret Alphabet since the 1860's.

Sherlock Holmes receives a mysterious cipher message from an agent of Professor Moriarty. Together Holmes and Watson decipher Moriarty's message which relates that a man named John Douglas is in danger.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, historical novels and humours. (wikipedia.org)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, and this graphic adaptation features giant pop-ups on every spread.Dramatic 3-D pop-up scenes will draw you into this graphic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous story of a sinister hound that stalks the English countryside. As Sherlock Holmes pieces together the clues surrounding the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, giant pop-ups on each spread add a new dimension to this classic mystery. Illustrator Anthony Williams’s full-color scenes capture the mood of the tale in exquisite detail, bringing the exploits of Sherlock Holmes to a new generation of readers.

"Having assembled a crew of adventurers, the brilliant, blustering physiologist and physicist Professor Challenger journeys to a South American jungle ... in search of a lost plateau crawling with iguanodons. It's a ripping yarn-the first popular dinosaurs-still-live tale, prototype for everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. At the same time, however, it's a philosophical novel, one that animates-in a thrilling, humorous fashion-the author's obsessive drive (also seen in his Sherlock Holmes stories) to reconcile the claims of logical reason and intuition. In their second adventure, Challenger et al. discover that the planet is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether which will destroy all life on Earth. However, Challenger has transformed his wife's dressing room into an airtight chamber, so they can witness the end of the world. An epistemological thriller"--