“The Five Orange Pips”, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock
[...]The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the
[...]“The Man with the Twisted Lip”, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891. Doyle ranked “The Man with the Twisted Lip” sixteenth in a list of his
[...]“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in May 1892. A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham, makes a loan of £50,000 to
[...]“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” is one of 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the seventh story of twelve in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in January 1892. As London prepares for Christmas, newspapers report the theft of the
[...]“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the last of the twelve collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in June 1892. Violet Hunter visits Holmes, asking whether she should accept a job as governess; a job
[...]Главного героя романов Мориса Леблана – Арсен Люпена можно охарактеризовать, как «джентльмена-грабителя». Впервые персонаж появился в новелле «Арест Арсена Люпена» которая была
[...]В эту книгу вошло восемь рассказов Агаты Кристи. В некоторых из них читатель встретится с любимыми сыщиками королевы детектива – Паркером Пайном, Харли Кином, Эркюлем Пуаро. Некоторые –
[...]В поместье Баскервиль-холл вблизи Гримпенской трясины при загадочных обстоятельствах умирает сэр Чарльз Баскервиль. Поговаривают, что виной тому родовое проклятье, по вине которого вот уже
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