Le docteur Mortimer fait appel à Sherlock Holmes et son ami Watson pour tenter d’expliquer la mort étrange de son ami Sir Charles Baskerville. Il les chargent également de protéger son frère, dernier héritier de cette famille maudite. Persuadé qu’une influence humaine se cache derrière un mystère en apparence surnaturelle, le célèbre détective mène ici une de ses plus célèbres enquêtes.
Ce volume contient : • Les Mémoires de Sherlock Holmes (7 nouvelles) • Le Chien des Baskerville (roman) • Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes (nouvelles)
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.
Ces histoires de Sherlock Holmes se révèlent être une lecture très agréable. La traduction de Pierre Bondil pour la collection Litera est fluide et fidèle à l’original.
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