Arthur Conan Doyle

Although Arthur Conan Doyle is now best remembered as the creator of the timeless Sherlock Holmes series of detective stories, he was also something of a social activist in his day who used his acclaim to shed light on injustices. In The Crime of the Congo, Conan Doyle builds a devastating case against the Congo Free State, a kind of sociopolitical...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made his name and cemented his literary reputation as the master of detective fiction with the Sherlock Holmes tales, but his wide-ranging interests led him to produce a remarkable array of books over the course of his career. This is his meticulously researched account of England's war with the Boers in South Africa,...

While most people remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his 'Sherlock Holmes' stories, he actually wanted more to be a journalistic and historical writer. This is one of his works in that vein, documenting the events of the Boer War, which had yet to end at the time of writing....

Odwaga, heroizm, spryt i waleczność. Niesamowite perypetie i bohaterskie wyczyny żołnierza wojsk napoleońskichPowieść historyczna, osadzona w czasach napoleońskich. Kolejne wielkie kampanie, krwawe bitwy, tajne misje i karkołomne potyczki, przeplatane swoistym humorem i z finezją opowiedziane przez Etienne'a Gerarda - żołnierza armii...

"e;It's an ugly business, Watson, an ugly dangerous business, and the more I see of it the less I like it."e;Sherlock Holmes had been dead for eight yearskilled of in another storywhen Arthur Conan Doyle decided to bring the famous detective back for a new story that he told friends was turning into "e;a real...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a...