"ABSTRAKThe best books ever escritosEl This volume presents three collections of stories in holmesiano complete canon: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1907), His Last Bow (1917) and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). After returning from a death that never took place, Holmes still solving the most complicated cases. In The Adventure of the carton, for example, you must find the sender of a horrible package containing two human ears. At other times, you have to prevent almost inevitable events, as in his last hurray, where a dangerous weapon can not fall into enemy hands at the gates of the Great War. Or in the adventure of lion's mane where he narrates, while enjoying a well-deserved retirement in Sussex, how he caught a strange animal homicida.Esta edition, which opens with an introductory study of Andreu Jaume aims at honoring the editorial efforts Esther Tusquets, whose project to publish the holmesiano canon was interrupted. Juan Camargo, an expert on European and American novel masses, has completed the translator work. Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson said, and we have one for both tonight."
"Summary: A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra...Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met..."
