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Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Arsène Lupin is involved in two robberies and a scam. The three victims decide to get together and call Herlock Sholmès to travel from London and put things in their place. Sholmès discovers three secrets that are about to lose Lupine: the hidden tunnels through which he moves, the pseudonym under which he lives among honest people, and his passionate love for the daughter of the architect Destange. But the tables turn and Lupine not only manages...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Conan volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned created of Sherlock Holmes, arrives with his wife Louisa at the Britannic Hotel in New York for his first American tour. While Arthur prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes entranced by the vibrant, dangerous metropolis brimming with debauchery and iniquity around every corner. When a woman's mutilated corpse turns up in a Bowery alley, Louisa recognizes the victim as someone she's seen in the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, was also the first Crime Scene Investigator. Based on a real surgeon, Holmes was a scientist who used chemistry, bloodstains, and minute traces of evidence to solve the crime. How Sherlock Changed The World details the impact and legacy of the most famous crime fighter in history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously...
33) The Sherlockian
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Literary researcher and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast Harold White is shocked when a scholar who discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary is murdered, while in 1890s London, Conan Doyle hunts a serial killer to prove his superiority to his famous character.
34) Through a glass, darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the quest to solve the greatest mystery of all
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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35) Conan, Red Sonja
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Spanning 3 eras in the lives of these classic characters, Conan and Red Sonja must become comrades to take down a twisted sorcerer-priest hell-bent on creating a new age in Hyborian warfare! With the entire world in danger, can they stop the deadly Bloodroot--a toxic plant capable of wiping out entire worlds--from falling into the wrong hands!?
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Boström recreates...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras la misteriosa desaparición de su padre, Mary Morstan empieza a recibir valiosas perlas de un remitente desconocido. Después de unos meses de silencio, el generoso remitente le propone a Mary que se reúna con él, con dos condiciones: debe ir a solas o acompañada de dos amigos y bajo ningún concepto puede avisar a la policía. La joven pide ayuda a Sherlock y a Watson para que la acompañen al extraño encuentro. La visita propiciará que...
Series
Kid Sherlock volume 1
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"John Watson is nervous being the only dog at his new school, Baker Elementary. But when he takes an interest in fellow student, Sherlock Holmes, the two become unlikely, and sometimes contentious, friends. Together they deal with bullies, track down lost toys, investigate stolen playground equipment, and even face an unseen threat terrorizing the school halls. All the while Watson tries to help Sherlock make friends with fellow students and Sherlock...
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