Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit.Reprinted from a standard...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer born in Scotland, who started out as a medical doctor and took an occupational detour that made him world-famous. While studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he augmented his income by writing stories — a pursuit that led to the creation of Sherlock Holmes, one of literature's best-loved detectives. Doyle also wrote many works of history and science fiction, plus plays and poetry. Set against the fourteenth-century war...
Eine der beliebtesten Sherlock Holmes-Geschichten über ein verschwundenes Rennpferd und dessen getöteten Trainer! Als Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson nach Dartmoor reisen, um den Fall zu untersuchen, stoßen sie schon bald auf die Spur – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – des erfolgreichen Rennpferdes. Es gibt zwar einen Verdächtigen, aber Sherlock Holmes glaubt an dessen Unschuld. Schritt für Schritt nähert er sich der Wahrheit…-
