Four tales from the great detective's case book, including bones that won't stay buried, and an exotic South American vampire. Now available for the first time on CD.

The (dis)connection between psychological (or scientific) and psychic mind is a subject that has baffled man for centuries. The phenomenon captured in a very particular way the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a man in whom the analytic and artistic struggled for dominance, and inspired The New Revelation, originally published in 1918. The treatise deals not only with the issue of physical versus metaphysical, but also considers the problem of death (and afterlife) and the question of communication with the spirit world. Conan Doyle's captivating prose and pragmatic, yet human, voice makes for an enlightening exploration of some eternally relevant questions-and possible answers. Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War, 1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892).

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.

Arthur Conan Doyle [RL 7 IL 7-12] A man is offered a senseless job and turns to Holmes to uncover his employers motives. Themes: appearance versus reality; power of observation. 60 pages. Tale Blazers.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors. His creation of Sherlock Holmes and the subsequent novels featuring the Victorian sleuth made him, and Holmes, household names across the globe. Of less renown, however, are his later works in which he considered and discussed what he eventually saw as his life's true mission; to spread the message of Spiritualism. His interest in Spiritualism was not something he came to in later life. He was already attending seances and researching life after death as far back as the early 1880's and by 1887 he had publicly announced his belief in Spiritualism when he wrote two letters to Spiritualist publication 'The Light'. He continued his research on the subject and expanded on his beliefs and as the years went by he wrote extensively on the topic. His earliest published book on the subject was 'The New Revelation' which appeared in 1916 which was quickly followed by 'The Vital Message' in 1918. In 1920 Sir Arthur went on a tour of Australia and New Zealand spreading his vital message and would continue to tour the world for the remainder of his life at his own expense proselytising for the cause.In 1924 He translated a French book, 'The Mystery of Joan of Arc' by Leo Denis that postulated the theory that Joan of Arc was a medium; this was two years before penning his magnum opus on the subject, 'The History of Spiritualism', in 1926. 'The Edge of the Unknown' was Conan Doyle's last published work and in it he discussed many things, most interesting of which was his thoughts on his one-time friend and eventual nemesis Harry Houdini. Houdini and Conan Doyle had a volatile relationship with Houdini's constant debunking of Spiritualism in public, enraging Sir Arthur, who believed that Houdini himself was a medium. In the book Sir Arthur also discusses ghosts and haunting which was something he had been looking into for many years. In 1893 he joined the British Society of Psychical Research, an organisation that contained many of the time's great scientific, philosophical and political minds amongst its number. The Society was set up so as to get a more concrete understanding of the many paranormal incidents that were reportedly occurring in the UK at the time and in 1894 Sir Arthur was sent out with two other psychical researchers to investigate a haunting.The panel were not immediately satisfied by their investigation but a later twist in the tale resulted in a positive verdict and the case served to strengthen Conan Doyle's belief in life after death and he continued to investigate cases of haunting for the rest of his life. The book also concentrates on the phenomenon of 'automatic writing'. Automatic writing is the term given to the act when a medium receives words from another entity which are written down on paper with the medium's hand not under their own control. Using this process many famous people have allegedly 'come through' and in 'The Edge of the Unknown' Sir Arthur delves into the afterlife writings attributed to Charles Dickens, Jack London and Oscar Wilde, amongst others. Although the book was his last and written shortly before he died, Conan Doyle wasn't aware of any illness so it shouldn't be seen as the final words of a dying man although it does contain his most detailed descriptions of some of the key elements of his research and is one of the crucial works in his Spiritualist canon.

The story is set in 1888.[1] The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major John Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, one per year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has been wronged and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar.

About Doyle: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Conan was originally a given name, but Doyle used it as part of his surname in his later years. Source: Wikipedia A Study in Red, also translated A Study in Scarlet or A Study in Scarlet, is a detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 before being published. in volume in 1888. The novel tells about an investigation led by Detective Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his new companion, Doctor Watson. The story takes place in two parts: The first part takes place in London, around 1881. Dr. John H. Watson, a former military doctor, wounded in Afghanistan and now retired with impecunity, meets Sherlock Holmes, with whom he decides to share an apartment at 221B Baker Street in London. The story of their cohabitation begins, moreover, with Watson's description of the strange behavior of his enigmatic companion. One day, Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from Tobias Gregson, one of the Scotland Yard sleuths, asking for help in a murder case. A corpse is discovered with several clues, and Sherlock Holmes will later demonstrate that these are false leads. After long investigations, Holmes finds that several clues do not correspond to the appearance of the facts. It is by questioning the inspectors of Scotland Yard that Holmes and Watson manage to identify the Mormon victim, thanks to a woman who lodged the victim and end this first part by arresting the suspect. The second part begins with a flashback during which John Ferrier and his adopted daughter Lucy are saved by a group of Mormons, then settle in their community in Salt Lake City in 1847. The two characters integrate into the community, thrive there and quickly become respected believers. It is by questioning the inspectors of Scotland Yard that Holmes and Watson manage to identify the Mormon victim, thanks to a woman who sheltered the victim and end this first part by arresting the suspect. The second part begins with a flashback during which John Ferrier and his adopted daughter Lucy are saved by a group of Mormons, then settle in their community in Salt Lake City in 1847. The two characters integrate into the community, thrive there and quickly become respected believers. It is by questioning the inspectors of Scotland Yard that Holmes and Watson manage to identify the Mormon victim, thanks to a woman who sheltered the victim and end this first part by arresting the suspect. The second part begins with a flashback during which John Ferrier and his adopted daughter Lucy are saved by a group of Mormons, then settle in their community in Salt Lake City in 1847. The two characters integrate into the community, thrive there and quickly become respected believers.

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon, Professor Challenger has made an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to Journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was."