Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

La aventura de los desaparecidos de tres cuartos

GROUSING ""The army swore terribly in Flanders."" Uncle Toby. What do the soldiers say? ""Dam! Dam! Dam! I don't mind cold, I don't mind heat, Over the top for a Sunday treat, With Fritz I'll always take my spell, But I want my grub, and where in hell Is the jam?"" What does the officer say? ""Dam! Dam! Dam! Mud and misery, flies and stench, Pig...

MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY was seated at his desk, his head upon his hands, in a state of the blackest despondency. Before him was the open ledger with the long columns of Dr. Oldacre's prescriptions. At his elbow lay the wooden tray with the labels in various partitions, the cork box, the lumps of twisted sealing-wax, while in front a rank of empty ...

THE HEGIRA OF THE WESTS FROM EDINBURGH I John Fothergill West, student of law in the University of St. Andrews, have endeavoured in the ensuing pages to lay my statement before the public in a concise and business-like fashion. It is not my wish to achieve literary success, nor have I any desire by the graces of my style, or by the artistic orde...

James Scott, duc de Monmouth, (1649-1685), fils naturel de Charles II d'Angleterre. À l'avènement de Jacques II, il organisa avec le duc d'Argyle un coup de force qui échoua. Ses troupes furent écrasées le 6 juillet 1685 lors de la bataille de Sedgemoor et il fut décapité. Toutefois certaines théories ont prétendu qu'il aurait pu être l'homme au...

The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton