The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics)


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The Valley of Fear (Collins Classics)


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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.







The Return of Sherlock Holmes


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The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle When Sherlock Holmes met his demise in The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in 1893, the distress of the unsuspecting reading public was profound. For years fans showed no signs of letting Sherlock Homes lie down and die. Eventually, Doyle saw fit to continue his Holmes' canon and wrote a series of 13 short stories The Return of Sherlock Holmes published in 1905. The series begins, inevitably, with the shock re-appearance of the master detective in The Adventure of the Empty House. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.




The Return of Sherlock Holmes. by A. Conan Doyle (World's Classics)


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The one and only Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead and devoting his life once more to examining the criminal complexities of England's capital city. The thirteen stories included in this masterful book tell of his return. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of many dreadful murders, but the one which astonished and distressed readers the most was when the author, anxious to try something new, killed off Sherlock Holmes. Trapped in mortal combat with the dastardly Professor Moriarty, Holmes and his opponent plunged to their deaths in the Reichenbach Falls. For ten long years, Baker Street was without its most revered resident. Then, in 1903, Doyle took pity on his readers and brought the sagacious sleuth back to life. The thirteen stories included in this masterful book tell of his return. Cases of mysterious codes, persecuted millionaires, stalkers, abductions, and a meeting with ''the worst man in London'' are all tackled with renewed vigor. But Holmes' old enemies are watching his every move.




The Return of the Native


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The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.




The Greatest Classics Ever Written


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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest world classics: Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...




THE MYSTERY NOVELS OF WILKIE COLLINS


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The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Armadale is a mystery novel and has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. No Name is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Content: The Woman in White No Name Armadale The Moonstone The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice The Law and The Lady The Dead Secret Miss or Mrs?




100+ Best Classic Detective Stories. The Great Detective Collection. Illustrated


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Some of the greatest detective stories every wrote are collected in this massive anthology. This book contains the stories and novels of the best authors of classic detective stories. Detective story, type of popular literature in which a crime is introduced and investigated and the culprit is revealed. Usually it is also axiomatic that the clues from which a logical solution to the problem can be reached be fairly presented to the reader at exactly the same time that the sleuth receives them and that the sleuth deduce the solution to the puzzle from a logical interpretation of these clues. The Agatha Christie Collection The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd Chapter 1. Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table Chapter 2. Who's Who in King's Abbot Chapter 3. The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows Chapter 4. Dinner at Fernly Chapter 5. The Tunisian Dagger Chapter 6. I Learn My Neighbour's Profession Chapter 7. Inspector Raglan is Confident Chapter 8. The Goldfish Pond Chapter 9. The Parlourmaid Chapter 10. Poirot Pays A Call Chapter 11. Round the Table Chapter 12. The Goose Quill Chapter 13. Geoffrey Raymond Chapter 14. An Evening at Mah Jong Chapter 15. Parker Chapter 16. Charles Kent Chapter 17. Flora Ackroyd Chapter 18. Miss Russell Chapter 19. The Paragraph in the Paper Chapter 20. Poirot's Little Reunion Chapter 21. Ralph Paton's Story Chapter 22. The Whole Truth Chapter 23. And Nothing But The Truth Chapter 24. Apologia Hercule Poirot. Poirot Investigates I The Adventure of “The Western Star” II The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor III The Adventure of the Cheap Flat IV The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge V The Million Dollar Bond Robbery VI The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb VII The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan VIII The Kidnapped Prime Minister IX The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim X The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman XI The Case of the Missing Will Poirot's Early Cases The Affair at the Victory Ball The Adventure of the Clapham Cook The Cornish Mystery The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly The Double Clue The King of Clubs The Lemesurier Inheritance The Lost Mine The Plymouth Express The Chocoilate Box The Submarine Plans The Veiled Lady The Market Basing Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories A Study in Scarlet Part I Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department Part 2 The Country of the Saints The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 1 — Mr. Sherlock Holmes Chapter 2 — The Curse of the Baskervilles Chapter 3 — The Problem Chapter 4 — Sir Henry Baskerville Chapter 5 — Three Broken Threads Chapter 6 — Baskerville Hall Chapter 7 — The Stapletons of Merripit House Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson Chapter 9 — Second Report of Dr. Watson Chapter 10 — Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson Chapter 11 — The Man on the Tor Chapter 12 — Death on the Moor Chapter 13 — Fixing the Nets Chapter 14 — The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 15 — A Retrospection The Sign of Four Chapter 1. The Science of Deduction Chapter 2. The Statement of the Case Chapter 3. In Quest of a Solution Chapter 4. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man Chapter 5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge Chapter 6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration Chapter 7. The Episode of the Barrel Chapter 8. The Baker Street Irregulars Chapter 9. A Break in the Chain Chapter 10. The End of the Islander Chapter 11. The Great Agra Treasure Chapter 12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small The Valley Of Fear Part 1 The Tragedy of Birlstone Part 2 The Scowrers Epilogue The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventure I A Scandal in Bohemia Adventure II The Red-Headed League Adventure III A Case of Identity Adventure IV The Boscombe Valley Mystery Adventure V The Five Orange Pips Adventure VI The Man with the Twisted Lip Adventure VII The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Adventure VIII The Adventure of the Speckled Band Adventure IX The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb Adventure X The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Adventure XI The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Adventure XII The Adventure of the Copper Beeches The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Silver Blaze The Yellow Face The Stockbroker's Clerk The "Gloria Scott" The Musgrave Ritual The Crooked Man The Reigate Puzzle The Resident Patient The Greek Interpreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Empty House The Adventure of the Norwood Builder The Adventure of the Dancing Men The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist The Adventure of the Priory School The Adventure of Black Peter The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton The Adventure of the Six Napoleons The Adventure of the Three Students The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter The Adventure of the Abbey Grange The Adventure of the Second Stain His Last Bow The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Cardboard Box The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans The Adventure of the Devil's Foot The Adventure of the Red Circle The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax The Adventure of the Dying Detective His Last Bow — An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes G.K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown The Blue Cross The SecretGarden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars The Invisible Man The Honour of Israel Gow The Wrong Shape The Sins of Prince Saradine The Hammer of God The Eye of Apollo The Sign of the Broken Sword The Three Tools of Death Maurice Leblanc Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar I. The Arrest of Arsène Lupin II. Arsène Lupin in Prison III. The Escape of Arsène Lupin IV. The Mysterious Traveller V. The Queen’s Necklace VI. The Seven of Hearts VII. Madame Imbert’s Safe VIII. The Black Pearl IX. Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late Edgar Allan Poe The Gold-Bug The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter Edgar Wallace The Treasure Hunt The Green Mamba Wilkie Collins Who Killed Zebedee? A FIRST WORD FOR MYSELF. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Charles Dickens Hunted Down