<div>These charming adventures of the 19th century French brigadier by the creator of Sherlock Holms are &ldquo;unjustly forgotten tales by a great master&rdquo; (Michael Chabon). Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his immortal character Sherlock Holmes, his tales of comic adventure featuring Brigadier Etienne Gerard, a French cavalry officer in the tine of the Napoleonic Wars, were equally beloved in their day. An old man who has retired in Paris, Gerard now recounts his escapades of younger days. In Napoleon&rsquo;s service, he fights battles, breaks hearts, and confounds the English all across Europe. This volume collects all of Doyle&rsquo;s Brigadier Gerard stories, originally published in The Strand Magazine between 1894 and 1903. In The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories &ldquo;you will find adventure, action, romance, love and self-sacrifice, hair&#39;s-breadth escape and reckless courage, gallantry, panache and a droll, backhand humor that rivals that of P.G. Wodehouse. You will also find yourself, even more than with the celebrated stories of Holmes and Watson, in the hands of an indisputable artist. For more than any other adventure stories I know, these stories have a power to move the reader&hellip; unjustly forgotten tales by a great master&quot; (Michael Chabon for NPR&#39;s You Must Read This). &quot;The Brigadier Gerard stories display all the narrative gusto of Doyle&#39;s more famous Sherlock Holmes, together with an irresistible warmth and humor.&quot;&mdash;Philip Pullman</div>

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The Complete Brigadier Gerard

<div>These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story. <ul></ul></div>

Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle

<div>&ldquo;Eight brief, pleasantly convoluted mysteries that resemble Sherlock Holmes stories without Sherlock . . . A cozy respite from television.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times This work brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics. When first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was entitled Round the Fire Stories, since the author recommended that they be read ideally &ldquo;&rsquo;round the fire upon a winter&rsquo;s night.&rdquo; According to Barzun &amp; Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime, &ldquo;As one reads &lsquo;The Man with the Watches,&rsquo; &lsquo;The Lost Special,&rsquo; &lsquo;The Jew&rsquo;s Breastplate,&rsquo; &lsquo;The Black Doctor&rsquo; and the rest, one marvels again at Doyle&rsquo;s natural gift of storytelling and one relishes his ingrained habit of giving clues, even when they serve narrative and are not to be used for ratiocination. These stories are worth reading even around a radiator.&rdquo; <ul></ul></div>

Tales for a Winter's Night

<div>A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . . This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind—or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork.</div>

Ghostly Tales

<div>From the beloved author behind Sherlock Holmes, a collection of fourteen exhilarating tales full of mummies, ghosts, adventure, and more. Best known as the creator of super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling tales of the supernatural and the corruption of technology. His sharp wit and chillingly detailed writing are at their peak in this diverse collection of adventures, ranging from the cunning escapades of a wartime strategist extraordinaire in “Danger!” to the gripping story of one explorer’s fatal journey into the skies in “The Horror of the Heights.” Every reader who accepts Conan Doyle’s invitation to “come through the magic door” discovers a world in which the senses are a thin veneer over an unsettling psychological and spiritual realm, a realm in which possibilities have no limits. This volume presents fourteen forgotten masterpieces by one of last century’s most popular writers.</div>

The Horror of the Heights

<div>A dozen classic cases featuring the world&rsquo;s greatest detective This first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories includes many of the consulting detective&rsquo;s best known cases. &ldquo;A Scandal in Bohemia&rdquo; finds Holmes matching wits with&mdash;and being outfoxed by&mdash;a beautiful American opera singer named Irene Adler. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy, in &ldquo;The Red-Headed League.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;The Adventure of the Speckled Band,&rdquo; which Arthur Conan Doyle named as the best of his Sherlock Holmes stories, our brilliant hero and his loyal friend Dr. Watson pay a visit to a young heiress&rsquo;s bedroom late one night only to stumble across another, far deadlier, visitor. Other beloved tales collected here include &ldquo;The Five Orange Pips,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Boscombe Valley Mystery,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.&rdquo; Originally appearing in the Strand Magazine, these twelve stories catapulted Holmes and Watson to international fame and established Doyle as one of the most popular and influential mystery writers of all time. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

<div>Thirteen tales of crime and intrigue, including the remarkable story of Sherlock Holmes&rsquo;s return from the dead It has been three years since Sherlock Holmes, locked in a fierce struggle with his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, disappeared over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls. The world has mourned his loss greatly, no one more so than his good friend and partner in the arts of detection, Dr. Watson. Imagine Watson&rsquo;s shock, then, when an elderly book collector he bumps into on the street turns out to be none other than the master sleuth himself. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sherlock Holmes did not die in Switzerland&mdash;he vanquished his greatest foe and set a trap for every other would-be mastermind foolish enough to attempt to match wits with the world&rsquo;s greatest detective. From the astonishing revelation in the opening paragraphs of &ldquo;The Adventure of the Empty House&rdquo; to the motiveless murder at the heart of &ldquo;The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez&rdquo; to the kidnapping that sets in motion the plot of &ldquo;The Adventure of the Priory School,&rdquo; these thirteen classic stories are among the most entertaining and endlessly clever entries in the canon of Sherlock Holmes. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

<div>The astonishing debut of Sherlock Holmes and his partner in detection, Dr. Watson Shot in the shoulder and brought to death&rsquo;s door by typhoid fever, Dr. John Watson is sent home from the second Afghan war with a small income and nothing to do but recover his health. By his own account, he leads a meaningless existence in London until a chance encounter with an old friend brings news of comfortable lodgings on Baker Street. In a hospital laboratory, Watson meets his potential new roommate for the first time. &ldquo;How are you?&rdquo; asks Mr. Sherlock Holmes. &ldquo;You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.&rdquo; With that remarkable feat of observation, one of literature&rsquo;s greatest partnerships is born. In their first case, Holmes and Watson set off for an abandoned flat in Lauriston Gardens. An American has been found dead, his body unmarked, a mysterious word&mdash;Rache&mdash;spelled out in blood on the wall. Scotland Yard thinks the murderer meant to write the name Rachel, but Holmes knows better. When the dead man&rsquo;s private secretary turns up stabbed through the heart, the same word scrawled nearby, it is up to the world&rsquo;s only consulting detective and his eager companion to find a killer whose lust for revenge has spanned two continents and dozens of years. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

A Study in Scarlet

<div>Holmes and Watson unravel a mystery so exotic it stretches to the very ends of the British Empire After months without a case, the world&rsquo;s greatest detective is aimless, his only stimulation the daily injection of his drug of choice. &ldquo;Which is it to-day?&rdquo; asks a disapproving Watson&mdash;&ldquo;morphine or cocaine?&rdquo; For a mind as finely tuned as Holmes&rsquo;s, the dull routine of existence will not suffice. Thankfully for Holmes&rsquo;s health and Watson&rsquo;s anxiety levels, a beautiful young woman soon calls at 221B Baker Street. Ten years ago, Mary Morstan&rsquo;s father, a captain of the 34th Bombay Infantry, disappeared from a London hotel. Four years thereafter, Mary began to receive large, lustrous pearls in the mail&mdash;one per year, always delivered on May 4. Now, six pearls later, Mary is finally about to meet her anonymous benefactor and asks Holmes and Watson to accompany her for safety&rsquo;s sake. The crime they uncover&mdash;in which a royal treasure, a diabolical double cross, and a man-eating crocodile all play a part&mdash;is one of the most thrilling tales Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, and a crucial chapter in the Sherlock Holmes saga. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Sign of the Four

<div>In the last of the Sherlock Holmes novels, the origins of his rivalry with Moriarty are revealed In London, there is a professor whose income runs to a modest &pound;700 a year, yet in his office hangs a painting worth no less than &pound;40,000. The author of a rarefied mathematical treatise on the dynamics of asteroids, he has twenty different bank accounts and a priestly manner that belies his vicious nature. His name is Moriarty, and he sits at the center of a vast and invisible web of crime. Years before their fateful meeting on the cliffs of the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes vows to put an end to the professor&rsquo;s secret reign of terror. A coded message from an informant on the inside of Moriarty&rsquo;s organization arrives at 221B Baker Street. No sooner than Holmes and Watson have deciphered the message&mdash;a warning that a man named Douglas of Birlstone Manor House is in grave danger&mdash;do they learn that Douglas is dead, his head blown off with an American shotgun. At a moated manor in the South of England, the dead man&rsquo;s widow and best friend hold the keys to a mystery that reaches all the way across the Atlantic and proves just how powerful Moriarty&rsquo;s fiendish influence has grown. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Valley of Fear

<div>Eight spectacular Sherlock Holmes stories, including his dramatic final adventure Years have passed since he tangled with Irene Adler and Professor Moriarty, since he solved the mysteries of the Red-Headed League and the Hound of the Baskervilles, but even in retirement Sherlock Holmes remains as sharp witted and inimitable as ever. Good thing, because England needs him and his loyal friend Dr. Watson now more than ever. On the eve of World War I, German agents have infiltrated the British military; crucial state secrets are within their grasp. Only Holmes and Watson can foil the Kaiser&rsquo;s spies and rescue the nation from a fate too awful to imagine. In addition to the title story&mdash;one of literature&rsquo;s most thrilling swan songs&mdash;this collection includes &ldquo;The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Adventure of the Devil&rsquo;s Foot,&rdquo; and four other captivating mysteries showcasing Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation at the height of their impressive powers. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. &ldquo;Perfect bite-size treats . . . You&rsquo;ll be hooked inside two pages.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;Every writer owes something to Holmes.&rdquo; &mdash;T. S. Eliot &ldquo;Sherlock Holmes is the very foundation stone of the edifice that is crime fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London)</div>

His Last Bow

<div>The immortal Sherlock Holmes solves eleven unforgettable mysteries These stories, originally published in the Strand Magazine, follow Holmes from the astonishing heights of his deductive powers to the bottom of a treacherous gorge in Switzerland. &ldquo;Silver Blaze,&rdquo; a case that famously hinges on the &ldquo;curious incident of the dog in the night-time,&rdquo; finds the detective employing his singular imagination to locate a missing racehorse. In &ldquo;The Greek Interpreter,&rdquo; Holmes and his brilliant older brother, Mycroft, team up to put an end to a diabolical extortion scheme. And, most notoriously, criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty makes his first appearance in &ldquo;The Final Problem,&rdquo; a story that begins with the discovery of a secret criminal organization overtaking England, and ends on a cliff overlooking the Reichenbach Falls. With a heavy heart, Dr. Watson tells the world what no one wants to hear: Holmes and his archenemy have plunged to their deaths together, locked in mortal combat. This legendary collection, which Arthur Conan Doyle intended to bring a fitting end to the Sherlock Holmes saga, also includes &ldquo;The Musgrave Ritual,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Reigate Puzzle,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Crooked Man,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Resident Patient.&rdquo; Each of these eleven stories is now recognized as a masterpiece of crime fiction, and a clear indication that the peerless sleuth was not yet ready to leave the stage for good. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

<div>Sherlock Holmes&rsquo;s most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer&rsquo;s daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen with vile intentions. The poor girl died of fright, but Baskerville&rsquo;s fate was worse&mdash;a giant black hound, eyes afire and jaws dripping with blood, tore out his throat and devoured it on the spot. Since then, the specter of that terrible beast has haunted Baskerville Hall, many of whose inhabitants have met violent, mysterious, and tragic ends. News of the latest death is brought to 221B Baker Street by a local doctor who hopes that Sherlock Holmes can solve the riddle of the curse before it claims yet another victim or leaves the hall forever empty. Sir Charles Baskerville perished alone on the edge of the moor, his face twisted in fright, the footprints of a gigantic hound marking the ground twenty yards from where his body was discovered. Has the mythical monster returned? Or does some other villain now inhabit the desolate moorlands? Holmes and Watson will be pushed to the very edge of reason as they seek to discover just who&mdash;or what&mdash;wants to see the Baskervilles destroyed. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Hound of the Baskervilles

<div>A master of mystery brings nightmares to life in this classic collection of horror stories The creator of Sherlock Holmes invites readers into the darkest corners of his imagination with these spooky and suspenseful tales meant to be read &ldquo;round the fire&rdquo; on a winter&rsquo;s night. Grotesque characters, bizarre phenomena, diabolical deeds, and terrifying twists of fate abound in mysteries such as &ldquo;The Club-Footed Grocer,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Brazilian Cat,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Sealed Room,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Brown Hand.&rdquo; From the supernatural to the sinister, the hair-raising to the spine-tingling, this creepy collection is a must-read for fans of the world&rsquo;s greatest detective and his inimitable creator. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Round the Fire Stories

<div>A treasure trove of mysteries drawn from the case files of the world&rsquo;s cleverest private investigators. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features many of the consulting detective&rsquo;s best-known cases. &ldquo;A Scandal in Bohemia&rdquo; finds Holmes matching wits with&mdash;and being outfoxed by&mdash;a beautiful American opera singer. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy, in &ldquo;The Red-Headed League.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;The Adventure of the Speckled Band,&rdquo; which Arthur Conan Doyle named as the best of his Sherlock Holmes stories, our brilliant hero and his loyal friend Dr. Watson pay a visit to a young heiress&rsquo;s bedroom late one night, only to stumble across another, far deadlier visitor. Martin Hewitt, Investigator stars a former law clerk turned private investigator who is every bit the deductive equal of Sherlock Holmes. A true master of disguise with a mind as sharp as a freshly stropped straight razor, Hewitt possess a familiarity with London&rsquo;s night streets and an easy rapport with members of the lower classes. From a troubling series of robberies that occurred at the same residence over several months to a locked-room suicide that was decidedly not self-inflicted, the great detective finds irrefutable solutions to the most unsolvable of mysteries. The Old Man in the Corner is a fascinating study in the art of logical deduction by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The most brilliant sleuth in London sits in the corner of the A.B.C. caf&eacute;, a length of string in his fingers. As the afternoon winds down, he ties and unties intricate knots&mdash;in the string and in his mind. No matter how baffling the crime, the old man in the corner need only read the newspaper accounts to know the culprit. The Thinking Machine relates the most confounding cases solved by the brilliant criminologist Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen. Slender, stooped, his appearance dominated by his large forehead and perpetual squint, &ldquo;The Thinking Machine&rdquo; spends his days in the laboratory and his nights puzzling over the details of extraordinary crimes. Whether unraveling the perfect murder, investigating a case of corporate espionage, or reasoning his way out of an inescapable prison cell, Van Dusen knows that with the application of logic, all problems can be solved. This ebook features new introductions by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The World's Smartest Detectives

<div>A murderer is hounded for the rest of his life&mdash;not for his crimes, but for the very act that won his freedom&mdash;in a story by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.As leader of the Bluemansdyke gang, infamous criminal &ldquo;Wolf-Tone&rdquo; Maloney plays his part in a series of gruesome murders. But when the gang is finally caught in New Zealand, Maloney betrays his comrades in exchange for a pardon. Though he&rsquo;s spared the gallows, he soon realizes he&rsquo;ll never be free. From Dunedin and Sydney to London and Paris, Maloney finds himself hounded by vigilantes who see his betrayal as the worst crime of all. This short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first appeared in London Society magazine in 1882.</div>

My Friend the Murderer

<div>The master of classic crime fiction and creator of Sherlock Holmes explores the weird and supernatural in this collection of mysterious tales.Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, the sharp detective who tracks down brilliant criminals through his devotion to logic and reason. But in The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories, Doyle sets his sights beyond the bounds of reason and ventures into the shadowy realm of the unexplained. This collection ranges from fantasy to horror, peculiar fairy tales to high seas adventures. In the title story, the intrepid captain of a whaling ship navigates his way into dangerous ice floes&mdash;only to face an unsettling apparition in the distance that will change the lives of everyone aboard.</div>

The Captain of the Pole-Star

<div>A dangerous expedition into the Amazon Basin reveals a land of living dinosaurs in this classic science fiction novel by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.When Professor Challenger, a famous paleontologist, reports that he has discovered dinosaurs living on a remote plateau in South America, he is met with ridicule from the scientific community, particularly his rival, Professor Summerlee. With the help of a young reporter and an experienced adventurer, the two academics make a return trip to the Amazon Basin in order to verify Challenger&rsquo;s claims. But what they encounter there is more incredible&mdash;and dangerous&mdash;than anyone thought possible. Successfully reaching the remote plateau Challenger described, the expedition team is soon trapped in a land of pterodactyl attacks and dangerous tribes of ape men. Their findings will turn the scientific world on its head . . . if only they can get out alive.</div>

The Lost World

<div>These twelve short stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes range from mystery and crime fiction to strange tales of the supernatural.First published in 1889 as a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s early short fiction featuring tales of crime and trickery, Mysteries and Adventures was later expanded to include stories of ghosts, hauntings, and strange sightings, as well as one of the American West that was originally published anonymously. This volume features the classic short stories &ldquo;My Friend the Murderer,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Gully of Bluemansdyke,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Silver Hatchet,&rdquo; &ldquo;The American&rsquo;s Tale,&rdquo; and others.</div>

Mysteries and Adventures

<div>A collection of works on everyone&rsquo;s favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes.This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world&rsquo;s foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: &ldquo;Was Sherlock Holmes an American?,&rdquo; &ldquo;On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street,&rdquo; &ldquo;Dr. Watson&rsquo;s Secret,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Other Boarder.&rdquo; Featured contributors include illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele, and writers Christopher Morley, Elmer Davis, &ldquo;Jane Nightwork&rdquo;&mdash;and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle.A founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and the author of indispensable biography The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Starrett combined a scholar&rsquo;s authority with a fan&rsquo;s enthusiasm in his appreciation of the great detective. So, if you enjoy the adventures of Holmes and Watson, head down to Baker Street and prepare to enter 221B. &ldquo;Useful, entertaining, imaginative, it belongs on every reader-insomniac&rsquo;s bedside shelf.&rdquo; &mdash;A Catalogue of Crime</div>

221B

<div>A classic British mystery anthology containing the last twelve stories featuring the most famous fictional detective of all time. Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes for this final collection of short stories showcasing one of English literature&rsquo;s greatest sleuths as he solves some of his more puzzling cases. From the criminal London underworld to the estates of the most illustrious aristocrats, Holmes engages his trademark deductive reasoning to locate a missing war veteran, recover a stolen gem, track down a Sussex vampire, and even discover why a university professor has begun to creep about like a beast. These are just a few of the mysteries that have come to the attention of Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson, some of which have baffled even the ranks of Scotland Yard. For Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts and lovers of classic British detective fiction, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is a must-read compendium of crime fiction from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about one his most beloved literary creations. &ldquo;The whole Sherlock Holmes saga is a triumphant illustration of art&rsquo;s supremacy over life.&rdquo; &mdash;Christopher Morley, author and founder of The Baker Street Irregulars </div>

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

<div>The renowned mystery author presents a comprehensive treatise on ghosts, s&eacute;ances, and psychic phenomena through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective who solved perplexing crimes with strict rationalism. But later in life, Doyle became fascinated by mysteries that defied rational explanation. A major proponent of spiritualism, he conducted numerous paranormal investigations and in 1926 published this definitive history of the movement. The History of Spiritualism begins with the early roots of spiritualist thought found in the writings of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Doyle then offers in-depth accounts of the movement&rsquo;s major figures in the United Kingdom and America, including Edward Irving, Andrew Jackson Davis, and the Fox Sisters, among many others.</div>

The History of Spiritualism

<div>The team of explorers from The Lost World reunites to face the end of the world in this adventure by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.Prof. George Challenger has made a troubling discovery: The Earth is about to pass through a belt of poisonous gas. He quickly summons his three friends&mdash;Professors Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and Edward Malone&mdash;to his home in Sussex with a request to bring tanks of oxygen. Once the men arrive, Professor Challenger leads them and his wife to a sealed room where they can wait out the crisis and observe the chaos outside. But when the poisonous cloud finally dissipates, there is no telling what they will find . . .</div>

The Poison Belt

<div>A Victorian suburban soap opera unfolds between three neighboring households in the English countryside in this novel by the acclaimed author.In late nineteenth-century England, Londoners are beginning to leave the city for suburban homes in the countryside. For fifty years, sisters Monica and Bertha Williams could see their sizeable garden out their front window. Now, they&rsquo;ve sold off the land, and three square villas have sprouted up on the spot. Their new neighbors are quite a different sight to behold . . .At first, the spinster sisters worried over who might move in. The first two households proved to be no source of panic: a retired navy admiral with a wife and son, and then a widowed, retired doctor and his two daughters who help keep house. But when a stout-drinking feminist moves in with her unemployed nephew, things begin to change.Where plants and flowers once grew, now romance blossoms. Meanwhile, financial troubles grow like weeds. And a pirate may cause even more trouble for one of these families . . . The Williams sisters may have lost their beautiful garden, but their new neighbors make up for it with plenty of drama.</div>

Beyond the City

<div>A team of deep-sea explorers discovers an underwater society and more in this thrilling adventure from the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Professor Maracot organizes an expedition to examine the area surrounding the deepest pit in the Atlantic Ocean and catalogue wildlife. But a terrifying attack changes the group&rsquo;s plans, cuts them off from the surface, and sends them plummeting into the abyss. A world of surprises awaits them at the bottom of the ocean, including survivors of the lost civilization of Atlantis, fascinating technology and ruins, amazing creatures, and even the face of evil itself . . .</div>

The Maracot Deep

<div>A short story about a young man with a radical approach to the game of cricket from the creator of Sherlock Holmes. While walking in the forest, veteran cricket player Walter Scougall comes upon a young schoolteacher named Spedegue practicing an unusual bowling delivery. When Scougall attempts to have the man repeat his actions in public, it yields entertaining results . . . Originally published in the Strand Magazine in 1928, The Story of Spedegue&rsquo;s Dropper is inspired by a bizarre experience Doyle had with cricket when he was a young man.</div>

The Story of Spedegue's Dropper

<div>Professor Challenger returns to test one of his theories by digging underground and poking the planet in this classic adventure story. In The Lost World, Professor Challenger and reporter Edward Malone found dinosaurs living in the Amazon. In The Poison Belt, they witnessed chaos as Earth passed through a cloud of poison gas. Now, with the help of Peerless Jones, an expert in Artesian boring, they seek to test the professor&rsquo;s Echinus theory . . . Professor Challenger believes that Earth is a sentient being. Like the sea urchin, it is protected by an outer layer, unaware of what happens on its surface. Challenger wants to dig beneath Earth&rsquo;s protective layer, its crust, and touch the creature inside to let it know humanity is here. But what the men find underground is quite surprising . . .</div>

When the World Screamed

<div>The bestselling author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries delves into the roots of his Spiritualist beliefs. After finishing his medical education in 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle considered himself a staunch materialist in regards to our personal destiny. But his subsequent research into Spiritualism led to his amazement that a great number of people&mdash;whose names were foremost in science&mdash;believed that the spirit was independent of the body and could survive it. Then, as the New York Times describes, &ldquo;The deaths of his oldest son, Kingsley (in 1918), his brother (the following year) and two nephews (shortly after the war) led him to embrace Spiritualism with all his heart, convinced it was a &lsquo;New Revelation&rsquo; delivered by God to console the bereaved.&rdquo; This treatise is a summation of Doyle&rsquo;s research and views, from his first forays into Spiritualism through mediums, seances, and his membership in the Psychical Research Society. He explores communication through automatic writing dictated by the dead, trance utterances, and direct voices. Also included are chapters on what has been proven to happen after death and the underpinnings of psychic law in Christianity. Doyle concludes with the assertion that divine sources have given to us a new revelation which alters the whole aspect of death and the fate of humanity. And it is not a revelation to be ignored.</div>

The New Revelation

<div>Stories of adventures and derring-do featuring the man who is &ldquo;after Holmes and Watson, Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s most successful literary creation&rdquo; (Julian Symons, Edgar Award&ndash;winning British crime writer). Originally published in The Strand magazine in the 1890s, the tales of Etienne Gerard, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, shows Arthur Conan Doyle at his satiric best. In his own words, Gerard takes readers through his illustrious career, his glorious feats as a lieutenant, squadron officer, colonel, and chief of a brigade. It is a hero&rsquo;s journey, embarked on by a man known far and wide for his duel with six fencing masters, and who found glory on the battlefield and taught Europe how to fight. Follow Gerard on his exploits as he encounters a man rumored to be the most wicked in Poland in &ldquo;How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom.&rdquo; &ldquo;How the Brigadier Slew the Brothers of Ajaccio&rdquo; portrays the very singular affair which propelled his career upwards and established his secret bond with Emperor Napoleon. And Gerard modestly recounts how he cemented his place in history as one of Napoleon&rsquo;s greatest confidants in &ldquo;How the Brigadier Was Tempted by the Devil.&rdquo; &ldquo;In its pages you will find adventure, action, romance, love and self-sacrifice, hair&rsquo;s-breadth escape and reckless courage, gallantry, panache and a droll, backhand humor that rivals that of P.G. Wodehouse. You will also find yourself, even more than with the celebrated stories of Holmes and Watson, in the hands of an indisputable artist. For more than any other adventure stories I know, these stories have a power to move the reader.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Chabon on NPR&rsquo;s You Must Read This</div>

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

<div>The bestselling author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries expands upon his thoughts in The New Revelation with evidence of a coming spiritual transformation. A Second Dawn will come not when the spiritual descends to us, but by the ascent of our material plane to the spiritual, and the blending of the two phases of existence. This is what Arthur Conan Doyle proposes as the cure for a world thrown into political and religious tumult after the First World War. With human failing and corruption thrown into stark relief, reform is necessary&mdash;readjustments based on the certainty of life after death and a sense of responsibility for our own spiritual development. In The Vital Message, Doyle asserts that Modern Spiritualism is the movement destined to bring vitality to the dead and cold religions. With the arrival of two very convincing forms of mediumship, the direct voice and spirit photography, there is greater proof than ever of Spiritualism&rsquo;s claims that the soul and personality survive. The challenge is for religious leaders to embrace Spiritualism as their greatest ally. Doyle goes on to lay out what the benefits of this transformation will mean to the human psyche and the world.</div>

Vital Message

<div>The creator of Sherlock Holmes delves into the sphere of the supernatural and unexplained in a collection of chilling stories. Mediums and mummies, s&eacute;ances and out-of-body experiences: they&rsquo;re all here in tales penned by one of the masters of detective fiction, whose real-life efforts researching the paranormal made him a true believer in spiritualism. In &ldquo;The Brown Hand,&rdquo; a member of the Psychical Research Society proves the perfect relative to free his uncle, a celebrated surgeon, of the one-handed apparition that haunts him. The titular story tells the tale of a professor at the University of Keinplatz who hopes to take a man&rsquo;s soul out of his body and put it back again, and the macabre fate that awaits him. In &ldquo;Cyprian Overbeck Wells,&rdquo; an aspiring writer gets a visit from the greatest masters of fiction in every age to assist him with his difficulties. And the execution of a criminal goes drastically wrong in the &ldquo;Los Amigos Fiasco.&rdquo; These stories and more will draw you into the most compelling mysteries of our earthly experience, and the world beyond it . . . &ldquo;Start a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning Washington Post columnist</div>

The Great Keinplatz Experiment

<div>Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of the most remarkable. A PoW for three-and-a-half years, Hardy made no less than twelve escape attempts while imprisoned by the Germans in the First World War, five of which being successful.In early 1915 he attempted to escape from Halle Camp, near Leipzig, by breaking through a brick wall into an adjacent ammunition factory. After five-months work the project proved impracticable. In the summer of 1915 he was transferred to Augustabad Camp, near Neu Brandenburg, and after being there 10 days he managed to slip away from a bathing party outside the camp, together with a Russian officer. After a difficult journey they covered the 50 miles to the Baltic coast. They swam a river, were nearly recaptured once, but eventually reached Stralsund. They nearly managed to get the crew of a Swedish schooner there to give them passage, but were arrested at the last moment.Hardy was returned to Halle and joined an unsuccessful attempt with a group of Russian officers to break down a wall. He then made a solo escape attempt by picking locks and breaking through a skylight before sliding down a rope onto the street. From here he slipped into the rain and darkness. He spoke enough German to make his way by train to Bremen. Here, broken down by cold and hunger, the Germans recaptured him.He was then transferred to Magdeburg, where he escaped with a Belgian officer using "subterfuge, audacity and good fortune". They reached Berlin by train, and went on to Stralsund. From there they crossed to the island of Rugen, but were arrested before they could find a fishing boat to take them to Sweden. His next prisoner of war camp was Fort Zorndorf, from where escape was virtually impossible. Nevertheless he made several attempts, and one nearly succeeded when, with two others, he almost got out disguised as a German soldier.Hardy was transferred around further and made subsequent escape attempts until he finally managed to escape for good in March 1918, after being a PoW for over three-and-a-half years.Written in Hardy's own words, this book reads like a wartime thriller or Hollywood screenplay and his Great War story makes for fascinating reading.</div>

I Escape!

<div>Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe. Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from: Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker As Lon Milo DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows. Don&rsquo;t say we didn&rsquo;t warn you&hellip;</div>

The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

<div>“Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Stamford, introducing us. “How are you?” he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” “How on earth did you know that?” I asked in astonishment. “Never mind,” said he, chuckling to himself. At that first sight of Watson, Sherlock Holmes made brilliant deductions. But even he couldn’t know that their meeting was inaugurating a friendship that would make himself and the good Doctor cultural icons, as popular as ever more than a century after their 1887 debut. Through four novels and fifty-six stories, Arthur Conan Doyle led the pair through dramatic adventures that continue to thrill readers today, offering an unmatched combination of skillful plotting, period detail, humor, and distinctive characters. For a Holmes fan, there are few pleasures comparable to returning to his richly imagined world—the gaslit streets of Victorian London, the companionable clutter of 221B Baker Street, the reliable fuddlement (and nerves of steel) of Watson, the perverse genius of Holmes himself. It’s all there in The Daily Sherlock Holmes, the perfect bedside companion for fans of the world’s only consulting detective. Within these pages readers will find a quotation for every day of the year, drawn from across the Conan Doyle canon. Beloved characters and familiar lines recall favorite stories and scenes, while other passages remind us that Conan Doyle had a way with description and a ready wit. Moriarty and Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson; the Hound, the Red-Headed League, the Speckled Band, and the dread Reichenbach Falls—it’s all here, anchored, of course, in that unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson. No book published this year will bring a Holmes fan more pleasure. Come, readers. The game is afoot.</div>

The Daily Sherlock Holmes

<div>In this apocalyptic adventure by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a professor and his companions brace themselves when a poisonous cloud falls on Earth. Professor Challenger, the intrepid curmudgeon first introduced in The Lost World, discovers that the Earth is hurtling toward a belt of poisonous gas that may exterminate the human race. He sends an urgent summons to three companions, survivors from his astonishing dinosaur expedition in South America. And he gives them one alarming command: &ldquo;Bring oxygen.&rdquo; Locked together in a sealed room, breathing canisters of oxygen, Professor Challenger, Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee watch the outside world go mad. Earth careens into the poison belt. People collapse in their tracks, unmonitored machines run amok . . . and civilization dies before their eyes. And their oxygen is running out . . . From the creator of Sherlock Holmes, The Poison Belt is the second adventure featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s greatest scientist hero.</div>

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The Complete Brigadier Gerard

Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales for a Winter's Night

Ghostly Tales

The Horror of the Heights

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

The Sign of the Four

The Valley of Fear

His Last Bow

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Round the Fire Stories

The World's Smartest Detectives

My Friend the Murderer

The Captain of the Pole-Star

The Lost World

Mysteries and Adventures

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The History of Spiritualism

The Poison Belt

Beyond the City

The Maracot Deep

The Story of Spedegue's Dropper

When the World Screamed

The New Revelation

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Vital Message

The Great Keinplatz Experiment

The Daily Sherlock Holmes

The Poison Belt

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