Bøger af Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1894, the publishing house of Archibald Constable & Co. launched a series of novels by well-known authors called The Acme Library. The two tales paired in this volume were the first two entries in the set. Unlike Constable's publication of Dracula in 1897, the Acme Library was a failure, and copies of books in the short-lived series are quite rare today.In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite, a sceptical scientist engages in dangerous experiments with Miss Penelosa, a hypnotist with deadly powers. Bram Stoker's The Watter's Mou' is a thrilling tale of romance and smuggling along the Scottish coast. These two short novels are fascinating in their own right, but also in how they reveal different sides of these two authors, best known for their creations Sherlock Holmes and Dracula.This edition features the unabridged texts of both novellas, taken from the scarce British first editions, and includes a substantial introduction by Catherine Wynne tracing the many parallels and convergences of the two authors' lives and literary careers. Also included are explanatory footnotes and an appendix containing Doyle's haunting story "John Barrington Cowles," Stoker's surreal "The Coming of Abel Behenna," and a 1907 interview of Doyle by Stoker.

Now Available in One Volume! Three great Napoleonic Era Novels by one of the Greatest Story-tellers of all time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Uncle Bernac: A mysterious message summons a man back to his ancestral home in France. There he finds service with Napoleon-and an uncle who is not only a vicious undercover operative, but has swindled his family out of their estates. It''s difficult to take action, however, when Napoleon desperately needs his uncle''s skills.The Exploits of Etienne Gerard: Move over Harry Flashman! You''ve met your match in the form of Etienne Gerard-the most outrageous Frenchman ever to don a Napoleonic uniform. The (self-described) greatest swordsman, greatest horseman, and greatest lover in the French army is turned loose in a series of improbable adventures that will have you on the edge of your seat-when you''re not falling off it with laughter.The Great Shadow: Two men fall in love with the same women, who is, in turn, swept away by a mysterious renegade Frenchman. It is an affair that can only be settled by the death of either the Frenchman or one of his English rivals. No one suspected, however, that it would require the killing fields of a place called Waterloo to resolve it.