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The White Company is a motley group of English mercenaries, fighting under the leadership of Sir Nigel Loring. Bound by an unquestioning respect for social order, patriotism and a lust for adventure, the company makes its way to France to fight in the local wars. With assiduous attention to historical detail, Conan Doyle paints a convincing picture of the chivalric life and manners of the 14th century.

This production of The Lost World, based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1975, and amongst the cast are Francis de Wolff, Gerald Harper, Carol Boyd and the renowned radio actor Carleton Hobbs. The story follows a 19th century expedition to enter the rumoured lair of animals thought to have died out millions of years before - a terrifying world of pterodactyls and other 'prehistoric monsters'.

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre. None of the works included in the collection will leave an inquisitive and demanding reader indifferent.

The third volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The fourth volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles. The title of the British collection was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (hyphenated "Case-Book"), whereas the title of the American edition was The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ("Case Book" as two words).

The second volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

"I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience. I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career after a medical training which gave me the MD of Edinburgh...I have traveled as Doctor to a whaler for seven months in the Arctic and afterwards in the West Coast of Africa." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tra i talenti di Sherlock Holmes, il celebre ed ecclettico investigatore inglese, c'è il travestimento. Tutto ruota attorno a questa sua abilità, in questo sorprendente Audiobook dove niente è quello che sembra e all'improvviso la vicenda si capovolge e svela una verità inimmaginabile. Ambientato in tempi bui e forieri di guerra, "Il suo ultimo saluto" ha per protagonisti alcuni agenti segreti tedeschi senza troppi scrupoli, impegnati a portare a termine un’importante missione a scapito della sicurezza della Gran Bretagna.

È una notte strana quella in cui il dottor Watson riceve inaspettatamente la visita di Sherlock Holmes. L'investigatore più celebre di tutti i tempi, quella notte è molto diverso dal solito. È spaventato, malandato, ferito. Sta fuggendo dal suo più acerrimo nemico, il diabolico Professor Moriarty. È il criminale più spietato, un autentico genio del male, un avversario insidioso dalle alleanze potenti.

Le giornate sonnacchiose che Sherlock Holmes aveva destinato a un periodo di riposo lontano da Londra, sono interrotte all'improvviso da un telegramma che contiene una richiesta d'aiuto. Un onesto borghese del Surrey è stato coinvolto in un oscuro caso di omicidio e il celebre investigatore decide di assisterlo. Si appassiona immediatamente a quello che fin da subito sembra un enigma senza soluzione.

Sherlock Holmes sta morendo. E non c'è davvero nessun dubbio sulla sua condizione. Lo stesso Watson, addolorato, non può che constatare...

Una lettera che arriva nel mitico appartamento di Baker Street, a Londra, mette Sherlock Holmes, di fronte a una richiesta d'aiuto davvero singolare. Un uomo addolorato, distrutto dall'angoscia, scongiura il più celebre investigatore di tutti i tempi, di risolvere il suo gravissimo problema familiare. Un essere malvagio si annida tra i componenti della famiglia del poveretto, per l'esattezza una donna; una donna vampiro che lui ama: sua moglie. E' un caso anomalo ma stimolante.

First appearing in print in 1890, the character of Sherlock Holmes has now become synonymous worldwide with the concept of a super sleuth. His creator, Conan Doyle, imbued his detective hero with intellectual power, acute observational abilities, a penchant for deductive reasoning and a highly educated use of forensic skills. Indeed, Doyle created the first fictional private detective who used what we now recognize as modern scientific investigative techniques.

From the moment Dr. John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence, but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood.

L'intuito del più celebre investigatore del mondo, quello che gli ha permesso di risolvere i più intricati misteri e di smascherare i criminali più spietati, raramente ha fallito. Molto raramente. Le indagini però, a volte possono rivelarsi più complesse di quello che appare, talmente insidiose da mettere in difficoltà anche Sherlock Holmes.

Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered and his son James is implicated. Will Sherlock find the real Killer?

Sherlock Holmes was created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. Holmes first appeared in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891.