„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and their friends and enemies, must struggle for their very survival in the hars...

A railroad Vice President and his chauffeur have sudden and mysterious seizures on the way to work; a family in New York city undergoes an epidemic of beri-beri; the American consul in the Virgin Islands collapses and dies for no apparent reason; a Wall Street speculator is apparently stabbed to death with a rubber dagger. Who other than Craig Kennedy, armed with his knowledge of chemistry, technology and Freudian psychology could solve these mysteries? This mystery/detecti...

The fifth volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures. Craig Kennedy continues to amaze with his usual sorts of crimes – jewel theft, missing persons, wrongly accused suspects, fixed horse races, arson, murder, and blackmail – but he uses scientific procedures to analyze the evidence, sometimes involving fantastical devices. „The Social Gangster” is the story focused on a mysteri...

Obsypana nagrodami - Nebula, BSFA, Hugo, Nagroda Campbella, Nagroda Locusa i Nagroda Jupitera - klasyczna powieść science fiction. Niezwykle pomysłowa i budząca podziw odpowiedź na zawsze aktualne pytanie: czy jesteśmy sami we wszechświecie? - „The Guardian” Odkąd w 2077 roku duża asteroida uderzyła w Ziemię, powodując ogromne straty materialne i zabijając setki tysięcy ludzi, astronomowie bacznie śledzą ruchy wszystkich takich obiektów. Gdy blisko sześćdziesiąt lat późni...

26 czerwca 2000 roku nastąpiły zmiany, które na zawsze zmieniły oblicze biologii i medycyny. Premier Wielkiej Brytanii Tony Blair oraz prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych Bill Clinton wzięli udział w konferencji prasowej za pośrednictwem łączy satelitarnych, aby wspólnie ogłosić zakończenie projektu nad Genomem Człowieka. W dzienniku The New York Times pojawił się wówczas nagłówek: Ludzki kod genetyczny rozszyfrowany przez naukowców. Sekwencja 3 miliardów baz stanowiła punkt kulmi...

Odkryj wielką moc chmur obliczeniowych i potencjał, jaki kryją w sobie! Co to jest chmura obliczeniowa? Kiedy korzystać z chmur, a kiedy ich unikać? Jak oszacować koszty korzystania z chmury obliczeniowej? Jeszcze parę lat temu udostępnienie dużej, popularnej aplikacji wiązało się z ogromnymi wydatkami na infrastrukturę. Konieczne było posiadanie własnej serwerowni, wynajmowanie przestrzeni w centrum danych lub uciekanie się do innych kosztownych rozwiązań. W tej chwili na ...

„The Valley of Fear” is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes receives a message from Fred Porlock, an agent to Professor Moriarty. Moriarty is blameless in the eyes of the law but Holmes knows him to be „the controlling brain of the underworld.” Together Holmes and Watson decipher Porlock’s message as indicating that a man named John Douglas residing at Birlstone is in danger...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. „Widmo przeszłości”, czy też „Tajemnica Cloomber” - „The Mystery of Cloomber” to powieść brytyjskiego autora Sir Arthura Conan Doyle'a. Narratorem jest John Fothergill West, Szkot, który przeprowadził się z rodziną z Edynburga do Wigtownshire, aby opiekować się majątkiem przyrodniego brata swojego ojca, Williama Farintosha. W pobliżu ich rezydencji, Branksome, znajduje się Cloomber Hall, przez wiele lat nieużytkowan...

The novel, which remained unfinished, was restored from the author’s drafts. The fascinating story of the French youth, who during the Napoleonic Wars was one of the many British prisoners of war. The story of his dangerous and fascinating adventures and a difficult, multifaceted political game in which he unexpectedly found himself drawn into. The book you are reading, literally holding your breath...

American lawyer and writer, Arthur Cheney Train, also called Arthur Chesney Train, was a prolific author of legal thrillers. His most popular work featured recurring fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt who became „the best known lawyer in America,” particularly after the appearance of „Yankee Lawyer”, an immensely popular book that purported to be Tutt’s autobiography. Published in 1923, these short stories take place in the ethnic, racial, social melting pot of early Twentie...

Klątwa wisząca nad rodem Baskerville'ów zbiera kolejne żniwo. Nie żyje Sir Karol, a miejscowi powtarzają, że za jego śmiercią stoi grasująca na wrzosowiskach hrabstwa Devon bestia. Legenda głosi, że za tajemnicze morderstwa odpowiada jeden z członków rodu - Henryk Baskerville, który zaprzedał duszę diabłu, ściągając klątwę na całą rodzinę. Rozwikłania zagadki podejmuje się najsłynniejszy detektywistyczny duet - Sherlock Holmes i jego wierny pomocnik Doktor Watson. Gdy w rodzi...

The Sign of the Four - is a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 1888, The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and ...

The Poison Belt - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World— Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee— to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. During their journey there, t...

The Lost World - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.It is a novel concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous peo...

The Hound of the Baskervilles - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mo...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This collection of stories consists of: A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley MysteryThe Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lip ...

„Znamię czterech” to powieść kryminalna autorstwa sir Arthura Conana Doyle’a wydana w lutym 1890 roku, druga powieść o przygodach Sherlocka Holmesa.

NOWE WYDANIE Z ORYGINALNYMI ILUSTRACJAMI SIDNEYA PAGETA! DOLINA TRWOGI Sherlock Holmes i doktor Watson otrzymują zaszyfrowany list od podwładnego geniusza zła, profesora Moriarty’ego. List zapowiada rychłe zabójstwo niejakiego Johna Douglasa, który faktycznie niebawem ginie. Podejrzenia o dokonanie tej zagadkowej zbrodni bogacza o tajemniczej, nieznanej nikomu przeszłości początkowo padają na osoby z otoczenia ofiary, z czasem prowadzą jednak detektywów do Stanów ...

This is the story of a young doctor in Victorian Britain. In this collection of letters written to an American friend, Stark Munro tells of the trials and tribulations that face him as he tries to build his practice. Each letter contains two elements: one part is the narrative of events in the life of a young medical graduate in his efforts to set up a practice, as his own man, with a very little assistance from anyone else; the other part of each letter is didactic, presen...

This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyle’s life. Published in 1929, only a year before the author’s death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracot’s exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean floor, and discover a very unexpected world, in fact a civilisation, dee...

Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Volume 6 continues the exciting adventures of the world’s most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Volume includes „The Adventure of the Gloria Scott”, „The...

This was one of several fictional historical works that Doyle wrote during the last five years of the 19th century, as he tried to find something to replace Sherlock Holmes. First published in 1897, this murder mystery relates the story of a young Frenchman, Louis, who, having grown up in England, returns to France at the false invitation of his Uncle Bernac. Louis quickly finds himself in personal danger as well as involved in a conspiracy against Napoleon. We’re soon the ...

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in „ The Hound of the Baskervilles „?...