The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Rilegato

Arthur Conan Doyle

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ISBN 10: 1912464527 ISBN 13: 9781912464524

Casa editrice: Baker Street Press, 2021

Riassunto

‘The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table. His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room’ When Lady Maynooth finds her son, the Honourable Ronald Adair, dead in his bedroom, his door has been locked from the inside, and it is clear that no one could have entered or left via the window. Cases involving the upper echelons of Victorian society are nothing new for Holmes and his colleague Dr Watson: the thirteen stories in this collection include the abduction of the son of the Duke of Holdernesse and the dilemma of an aristocratic débutante who wishes to retrieve a compromising letter before it reaches her noble fiancé. As usual, the surreal is never far from Holmes’s orbit, as in the bizarre case of the thief who steals plaster casts of the Emperor Napoleon—only to smash them to pieces. Whilst the official police have no option but to prosecute crime, Holmes and Watson are able to exercise discretion when they see fit. In this collection there are several examples of such compassion, where the two friends show the humanity and kindness which help endear them to the reader.

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Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer, responsible for creating the literary character, Sherlock Holmes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Baker Street Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1912464527
• ISBN 13: 9781912464524
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 64
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile