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The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle

The story of this historical novel is set in the years 1366 and 1367 in England, France and Spain. While the Black Prince Edward tries to help Peter of Castile back onto the throne of his kingdom, things get out of hand and the White Company, a group of archers, faces its defeat right before the Battle of Najera.

The White Company

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The White Company.

ISBN: 9783849690823

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

t the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves the Catholic abbey where he has been raised—intelligent, skilled, and well-liked, though sheltered and naive—and goes out to see the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle

In this rapid tale Mr. Doyle relates some further detective work of that gifted personage, Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Holmes finds existence lamentably dull in the momentary lack of new phases of abstruse crime until the plot really unfolds. The story is about East Indians, loot, very wicked retired army officers, murder, poisoned darts, an angelic and defrauded lady and the mastermind of Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of Four

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The Sign of Four.

ISBN: 9783849690816

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Firm of Girdlestone – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Firm of Girdlestone” dealt in ivory, gums, ebony, gold-dust and other African products. Its two members, father and son, were cold-hearted, hard-headed scoundrels, who over-insured their ships and indulged in other fraudulent practices. The elder Girdlestone becomes guardian of a young heiress whose money reverts to her guardian in case of her death. The plotting of father and son to obtain this fortune and save the firm from bankruptcy makes up the story, the scene of which is principally in England.

The Firm of Girdlestone

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The Firm of Girdlestone.

ISBN: 9783849690809

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

John Girdlestone owns the firm … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Micah Clarke – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Micah Clarke,” like Mr. Blackmore’s “Lorna Doone,” is a tale of the last romantic rebellion with a base in England—the futile attempt of Monmouth. The big Porthos-like hero is, in some ways, akin to John Ridd; but he occupies, as regards politics and religion, the juste milieu that Sir Walter favored when he wrote history, and assigned to such romantic heroes of his own as Henry Morton, and even Roland Graeme. Though “a simple-hearted unlettered yeoman,” Micah Clarke is really wise with the wisdom of the later Victorian time, and, in one remark, speaks as if he had read Mr. Herbert Spencer with approval, so far as the problems of religion are concerned.

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A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle

Even today, Mr. Doyle’s stories create such a sensation all over the world that he now ranks among the best English novelists. This novel marks the first appearance ever of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and shows the marvellous imagination which enables him to invent a seemingly insoluble mystery and then to clearly unravel it. 

A Study in Scarlet

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A Study in Scarlet.

ISBN: 9783849690946

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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...