Résumé
Mr. Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office employee, is desperate. An important naval treaty disappeared while he was working with it during one late night in the office. Phelps reaches out to his old schoolmate, Holmes, and asks for his help. A long and exhausting investigation begins. But it is a matter of time for the treaty to be divulged to a foreign government. Will Holmes solve the case in time? Will Phelps win his good reputation back? "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" is a part of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes".Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
Auteur
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Arthur Conan Doyle, né à E dimbourg en 1859, ayant fait le tour du monde comme mé decin de bord, publie en 1887Une é tude en rouge, où apparaît le personnage de Sherlock Holmes. Le succè s est immé diat et les aventures se succè dent, duChien des BaskervilleauxMémoires de Sherlock Holmes. Désireux de se consacrer au roman historique, il dé cide pourtant de tuer le gé nial détective dansLe Dernier Problè me(1893), à l'indignation de ses lecteurs : il devra le ressusciter en 1903 dansLa Maison vide. Devenu ophtalmologue a Londres, fait chevalier par E douard VII, Conan Doyle ne se dé tourne pas de son œuvre patriotique (La Grande Guerre des Bœrs), s'engage en politique, mè ne des enquê tes indépendantes sur certaines affaires judiciaires et se passionne pour l'occultisme. Il meurt en 1930 dans sa maison du Sussex.
Auteur(s) : Arthur Conan Doyle
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Saga Egmont International
Auteur(s) : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publication : 3 mars 2021
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 317 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9788726644012