Publicada en 1887 significó la primera aparición del detective Sherlock Holmes. La novela, a caballo entre el género policíaco, el relato de aventuras y la reconstrucción histórica, gira en torno a un crimen cometido en Londres, relacionado con la secta mormona y el estado de Utah.
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“Sherlock Holmes” is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is “Mr Hosmer Angel”? Which student saw the “Exam Paper” before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith on “The Dangerous Road”? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes...
A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog...
In “Three Sherlock Holmes Adventures”, Arthur Conan Doyle offers us the narrations that John H. Watson (‘Elemental, dear Watson’) review one and another time on the Holmes’s adventures. This book contains: “Silver Blaze”, “Thor Bridge” and “The Stockbroker’s Clerk”.
Edward Malone is determined to prove to his beloved Gladys that he's a man of adventure. Accompanied by Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton, Edward embarks on an expedition like no other. Deep into the Amazon the four men go, in search of a “lost world” where...
The Burlington Reader Series, offering over a lot of titles, is specially designed for ESO and Bachillerato students. It offers a wide variety of accessible and graduates adaptations and original stories that reflect the interests of students in these age groups.
Un enmascarado busca protección ante un escándalo político, una...