The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves investigating the curious case of an aged professor whose sudden strange alteration in behaviour terrifies everyone from his daughter and her fiance to the family dog. This and eleven other cases which confound clients or perplex the police are tackled by Holmes and Watson in the final collection of the duo's detecting adventures.

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves investigating the curious case of an aged professor whose sudden strange alteration in behaviour terrifies everyone from his daughter and her fiance to the family dog. This and eleven other cases which confound clients or perplex the police are tackled by Holmes and Watson in the final collection of the duo's detecting adventures.

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently-Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the most famous author's short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works. .

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently-Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the most famous author's short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works. .

What makes a scientist? In a charming memoir, beloved and brilliant scientist Richard Fortey offers a tour of the natural world in all its joys, puzzles and curiosities.In this memoir, Richard Fortey – a palaeontologist and natural historian – tells the story of how as a young boy he became fascinated with the natural world, leading to a long life exploring its secrets. He leads a journey through botany and birds, fossils and fungi, using a different object to lead each chapter.A great brown trout caught by his father opens up the world of fish, streams and rivers. A blue thrush’s egg takes us out tramping through water meadows and into the social world of birds and trees. Richard takes us back to his past as a small boy who was allowed a little shed at the bottom of the garden in which to play chemist, and where, with the guidance of the encyclopaedia, he made the likes of potassium cyanide from horse hoof clippings, and then the ‘smelliest substance’ – a chemical that when taken outside the shed’s confines brought mayhem to his school, and the Central Line.Educational and inspiring, this is a charming memoir of a life in the thrall of science and the wonders of the natural world.

«Архив Шерлока Холмса» (1927) — последний сборник рассказов Артура Конан Дойла о знаменитом детективе с Бейкер-стрит. Двенадцать историй знакомят читателя с делами, отчеты о которых сохранились в бумагах доктора Ватсона и самого Холмса, но в силу разных причин не были опубликованы по свежим следам описываемых событий. Спасение юной девушки от преследований родовитого негодяя, выяснение причиныстранных недугов, одновременно поразивших отставного солдата и университетского профессора, разгадка жуткого случая вампиризма в семье торговца чаем из Сассекса, — эти и другие расследования, извлеченные из архива великого сыщика, стали достойным завершением классической «шерлокианы». Неадаптированное изданиена английском языке.