Arthur Conan Doyle

This is the birth of the detective's prototype, a model of deductive reasoning: Sherlock Holmes. Few characters in the history of literature have become so strong in the collective imagination, generating affective ties with their readers who today express themselves in fan clubs, festivals and museums around the world.

Sherlock Holmes extends his hand to grab the bottle of cocaine while his loyal partner, Dr. Watson, looks at him with reprobation. Thus the sign of the four, the second novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, starring his most famous character, starts.

The White Company, a first-time favorite book by Conan Doyle, recounts the perispecia and adventures that occur to three friends (Alleyne Edricson, a young and inexperienced monk from the Beaulieu Abbey who first comes out into the world; Juan de Hordle, a giant, pitiful and hard-working, expelled with dishonor from the same abbey, and Samkin Aylward, a right-handed archer in a thousand battles) who are on the way and decide to join the White Company, at the orders of Sir Nigel Loring, a knight of the Spanish warlord, to usurper the Spanish forces, for the reprimand for the Spanish forces.

The pioneering model of the police and intellectual novel

History collection of < strong > Sherlock Holmes < / strong >, originally published in 1894: "Silver Star," "The cardboard box," "The yellow face," "The stockbroker's office," "The Corbeta" Gloria Scott, " "The Musgrave ritual," "The dots of Reigate," "The adventure of the hump," "The inner patient," "The Greek interpreter," "The naval treaty," "The final problem.".

Conan Doyle was almost forced to write this collection of stories as his readers complained that the protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, had died in the falls of Reichenbach (Switzerland) when he was fighting with Professor Moriarty in the story entitled "The Final Problem," from the Sherlock Holmes Memories collection.

Overview

Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because she thinks he's too prosaic, decides to live adventures and seek fame to get his appreciation. He then met Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a lost world populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters.

As the balloon passes through a poisonous ether belt, terror takes hold of humanity; riots in cities; communications cease.

The valley of fear is the fourth and last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is based freely on the feats of the real life of Molly Maguires and Pinkerton's agent, James McParland.

In this last presentation of the detective's adventures, Dr. John Watson's narrations open the door to the incredible adventures he lived next to the best detective who has ever stepped on this planet.