Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes I

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Godó i Costa (Translator)

Fa algun temps que el doctor Watson és casat i que ha reprès la pràctica de la medicina civil. Aquests fets l’han allunyat durant un temps del seu mestre inseparable en l’art d’esbrinar misteris que la policia ha deixat de banda, bé sigui perquè els considera irresolubles, bé sigui perquè pensen que són foteses. Però qualsevol lector sospitarà que no n’hi ha pas, de foteses o casos irresolubles per a l’ull clínic de Sherlock Holmes. Qualsevol esdeveniment misteriós, qualsevol detall suggestiu, dóna ales al detectiu privat més important de la història de la literatura, que posarà a prova els seus extraordinaris dots d’observació per resoldre casos tan difícils i inquietants com els que se’ns presenten en els sis relats que conformen el primer volum de Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes.

176 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2011

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.