Shadows of Sherlock Holmes -

David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth Classics

1998

357 páginas

11h 54m

ISBN-13: 9781853267444

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconcend in his rooms at 221B Baker Street an London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in the you will meet the Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus Van Dusen - the Thinking Machine, Max Carrados- the incredible blind detective, the repulsive, the repulsive, but brilliant Skin O' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenuous French sleuth Eugene Valmont.
On the other side of the law there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Case (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) by Bret Hart, The Swedish Match, by Anton Checkov, Nine Points of the Law by E.W Hornug, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Braman and The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy.

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Contos clássicos de mistério.

Adoro os clássicos de mistério como Agatha Christie e Conan Doyle, mas sei que eles representam uma mínima parcela deste gênero literário. Comprei este romance pela curiosidade de ler outros autores como Chekhov e Edgar Allan Poe, mas fiquei bastante decepcionada. Achei os contos chatos e nem um pouco interessantes,em suma, maçantes. Mas, para quem se interessar, eis a lista de alguns dos contos mais famosos que constam neste livro:
1- The purloined letter- Edgar Allan Poe
2- The swedish match- Anton Chekhov
3- The secrets of the Black Brotherhood- Dick Donavan
4- Nine points of the law- E.W Hornung
5-The ghost at Massingham Mansions- Ernest Bramah
6- The great pearl mistery- Baroness Orczy
7- The absent-minded coterie- Robert Barr
8- A princess´s Vengeance- C.L Pirkis
9- A clever capture- Guy Clifford
10- The stir outside de Café Royal- Clarence Rook