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A coach driver has been murdered...and it looks like the killer is going to get away with their terrible crime. The only clue is a torn piece of paper in the victim's hand, with a few words written on it. With the help of this single tiny clue, can our legendary sleuth unravel the mystery?

An einem verschneiten Februar-Morgen erblickt Dr. Watson vom Fenster aus einen etwa 50-jährigen, gut gekleideten Herrn im Anmarsch, der mit seinen Bewegungen den Eindruck eines Wahnsinnigen macht. Es handelt sich aber um Alexander Holder, den Teilhaber der zweitgrößten Londoner Privatbank Holder & Stevenson, für den eilige Fußmärsche einfach nur ungewohnt sind. Gestern ersuchte ihn im Büro eine der prominentesten Personen Englands, um ein kurzfristiges Darlehen über 50.000 Pfund, das schon am Montag wieder zurückgezahlt werden soll.

In King's Pyland, gelegen im dünn besiedelten Dartmoor, wird der berühmte Pferde-Trainer John Straker ermordet, und sein Pferd, das als schnellstes Englands gilt, bleibt verschwunden. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson treffen bei der Spurensuche auf Silas Brown, den Widersacher Strakers.

"Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes" (Originaltitel: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") sind eine Sammlung von zwölf Kurzgeschichten von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Die Geschichten wurden ursprünglich von Juli 1891 bis Juni 1892 im Strand Magazine veröffentlicht, der Sammelband mit Illustrationen von Sidney Paget erschien am 14. Oktober 1892 in Großbritannien und am 15. Oktober 1892 in den USA. Im Zentrum der Handlung stehen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John Watson, die seltsame Verbrechen aufklären.

Someone keeps breaking into shops and houses and smashing statuettes of the French general and statesman, Napoleon. Why? The police are baffled, so they call in the one man who can solve the mystery: London's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes.

"Der adlige Junggeselle" ("The Noble Bachelor") erschien erstmals im April 1892 im Strand Magazine. Noch im selben Jahr wurde der Fall in "Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes" veröffentlicht. Lord Robert St Simon, der zweite Sohn des Herzogs von Balmoral, sagt sich brieflich für den Nachmittag bei Holmes und Watson an. Aus den Zeitungen rekapitulieren sie, dass sich der 41jährige am Vortag mit Hatty Doran, der einzigen Tochter eines US-Millionärs aus San Francisco, verheiraten wollte.

A wealthy man has been murdered in the strangest circumstances. A woman's wedding ring has been found with the body and the word "RACHE" has been scrawled in red on a nearby wall. Is this mystery too baffling for even the brilliant Sherlock Holmes?

Erstmals erscheinen die letzten 5 Folgen der beliebten "Sherlock Holmes" Originale digital. Erlebt das große Finale der bekanntesten Sherlock Holmes Auflagen.

The original dinosaur thriller! An expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive! Classic science fiction!

Ein Fall, in dem Sherlock Holmes über die Welt der Pulp Fiction und das Geheimnis des Teufels von St. James schlussendlich das Ziel seiner Ermittlungen erreicht: das Feuer der Hölle.

A frozen Arctic expanse, a captain who appears to be hardly of sound mind and a strange wailing from across the ice fields make for an eerie and desolate voyage. John M’Allister-Ray, a student of medicine aboard the Polestar, records the events in his diary whilst scarcely believing what he is witnessing.

In October 1916, Conan Doyle announced in the journal light his conversion to spiritualism. During the last years of his life, he became the crusader of this movement that preaches salvation of humanity through science. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures about spiritualism in Australia, in USA, and in Canada. He published his autobiography, Memories and Adventures in 1924 and opened a bookstore dedicated to spiritualism, The Psychic Bookshop in London, where he handled the editing of his own works.

Письма Старка Монро - роман Артура Конан Дойля, является не только наиболее автобиографической книгой писателя, но также произведением, в котором в полной степени отображены свойственные ему, на тот период, материалистичные взгляды.

This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brain child, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unbeatable for thrills and excitement. Contents: Tales of terror: The horror of the heights, The leather funnel, The new catacomb, The case of Lady Sannox, The terror of Blue John Gap, The Brazilian cat.

Nicht einen Moment glaubt der berühmte Privatdetektiv Sherlock Holmes daran, dass es sich bei den irrlichternden Phantomen, die angeblich die Ostsee-Insel Hiddensee heimsuchen, um die Geister der Wikinger handelt, deren Goldschatz vierzig Jahre zuvor ebendort gefunden wurde. Dennoch nimmt er den Auftrag des Museums in Stralsund an, in dem der spektakuläre Goldfund verwahrt wird.

Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself—amateur or professional— was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue have been thrilling readers since ancient times. The Lock and Key Library is the classic overview of the history of the mystery genre, at once a rousing listen for fans of the unsolved and unknown as well as an essential literary resource for those seeking to understand the roots of modern pulp fiction. This volume is sure to delight and enthrall armchair detectives and fans of classic mysteries alike.

'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?' Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city.

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most talented investigators in the world, and has solved case after case with his intelligence and intuition. When he is sent a mysterious coded message from a spy working for his enemy Professor Moriarty, Sherlock takes it upon himself to crack the code and begin investigating a crime that has yet to happen against a man named John Douglas.

The world’s most famous sleuth is back for new adventures. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show that aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.

"Sir Nigel" is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel "The White Company", and describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.