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Organized crime is perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon of our time. From Al Capone, who boldly claimed his bootlegging activities were a public service, to the flamboyant Teflon Don, the criminals of the underworld have garnered headlines and captured our imagination with their violent and extravagant lifestyles.

Welche Verbindung besteht zwischen einem mittelalterlichen holländischen Maler wie Hieronymus Bosch und einer unheimlichen Mordserie im London des Jahres 1895? Keine, meint Inspektor Lestrade von Scotland Yard. Doch Sherlock Holmes ist anderer Ansicht. Gemeinsam mit Dr. John Watson ermittelt er in finsteren Opiumhöhlen und einem geheimnisvollen Wasserschloss. Dabei lernt er eine zwielichtige Opernsängerin, einen rätselhaften Gnom und einen heruntergekommenen Engelmacher kennen.

En el año 2013 una misteriosa nave espacial llega al sistema solar.Se trata de Rama, un aparato colosal de cincuenta kilómetros de diámetro, capaz de acoger en su interior una ciudad y un mar. Desierta y aparentemente abandonada, Rama parte hacia su siguiente y desconocido destino. Los humanos han descubierto muchas de sus maravillas, pero no han resuelto los muchos misterios que alberga esa nave. Sólo tienen una cosa clara: los constructores de ese mastodonte lo hacían todo por triplicado.

Lucinda longs for intimacy, her natural desire to be embraced often commanding her attention. Her attempts to satisfy are hampered by the scar. She is fearful of love, and in turn, fearful of happiness in this world. Having lived most of her young adult life in the shadow of a dark secret, the prospect of happiness remains a distant hope. Until July 4, 1840, when the chance encounter with an intriguing young gentleman begins to reshape her world.

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.