Des cris lugubres résonnent dans la lande... Et voici que la légende prend corps. Un chien énorme, créature fantomatique et infernale, serait à l’origine de la mort de sir Charles Baskerville. Une malédiction plane sur cette famille depuis que l’ancêtre impie provoqua en son temps les forces du mal! Sherlock Holmes ne peut croire à de telles sornettes. Aussi, lorsqu'il dépêche le fidèle Watson auprès de sir Henry, l'héritier nouvellement débarqué d'Amérique, il ne doute pas de mettre rapidement fin aux spéculations. Pourtant, la mort frappe encore sur la lande. Et le manoir des Baskerville est le théâtre de phénomènes étranges...

Verzweifelt wendet John Hector Farlane sich an Sherlock Holmes: Der junge Anwalt ist dringend verdachtig, seinen Mandanten Jonas Oldacre, Bau-meister aus Norwood, kaltblutig ermordet zu haben. Die Beweislage ist erdruckend, doch im Gegensatz zur Polizei glaubt der Meisterdetektiv an die Unschuld seines verangstigten Klienten. Gemeinsam mit seinem treuen Freund Dr. Watson macht Holmes sich unverziiglich an die knifflige Untersuchung des Falles.

«The Hound of the Baskervilles» is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. The detective is contemptuous of supernatural manifestations, but the reader will remain perpetually haunted by the hound from the moor. The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, was Emeritus David Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and author of «Modern English Literature». The general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh and author or «The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle».»

In these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.

«Un homme est trouvé mort dans une maison inhabitée, au cœur d'un des plus sinistres quartiers de Londres. Autour de lui, des traces de sang, bien que le cadavre n'ait aucune blessure. De quoi laisser perplexes Lestrade et Gregson, les limiers de Scotland Yard. Parue en 1887, cette Etude en rouge est la première des enquêtes de Sherlock Holmes. Nous y faisons la connaissance de l'extraordinaire détective à travers les yeux du bon Dr Watson. Nous y apprenons le «raisonnement analytique» et l'art de faire parler les indices. Ce classique du roman policier est aussi un roman d'aventures qui nous conduit dans le Nevada des Mormons et de la ruée vers l'or, où s'enracine le mystère...»

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic collection of stories, with an introduction by Sherlock creator Mark Gatiss, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures. After his deadly plunge over Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes seemed gone forever — but, as mysteriously as he left, he returns three years later. Now, reunited with Watson, a host of thrilling new adventures through London's underworld awaits, battling thieves, kidnappers and killers alike. But Holmes is about to meet his most despised villain yet: the dastardly Charles Augustus Milverton.

«Since his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic hero — a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes's famous «seven percent solution» and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling «The Adventure of the Speckled Band», the baffling riddle of «The Musgrave Ritual», and the ingeniously plotted «The Five Orange Pips» tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.»