Resultado Editorial "MX Publishing" em Literatura e Ficção

In 1887 on his way to prison, the convicted murderer, Vincent Louder Lovelace, was killed in a horrific collision in London between a police wagon and an omnibus. Though Lovelace never kept his date with the hangman, his accidental death resulted in justice being served. Or so the authorities continued to believe until the arrival at 221B Baker Street of the American author, Julian Hawthorne, son of the famous writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Julian informs Sherlock Holmes that the dead man is not only alive and well, but also innocent of murder.

Orlando Pearson mixes the Great Baker Street detective with history both familiar and unfamiliar to deliver his customary heady brew of Holmesiana.

From a country estate in Sussex to the docklands of Limehouse, from the Royal Albert Hall to a music hall in Shoreditch, from the net-curtained suburbs of Beckenham and Hampstead to a brothel in Bow, Holmes and Watson go plumbing the depths of human depravity to unmask likely and unlikely villains. The cast of colourful characters include a world famous Russian violinist, an intrepid female detective, Miss Dimples and her performing poodles, a diminutive maid named Fancy, a dead policeman on a platform at St Pancras station, as well as Wiggins, Jimsy and Bobs of the Baker Street Irregulars.

Nazi London 1936. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, and Mrs Hudson, marked for death and relentlessly pursued by Inspector Lestrade and the Gestapo as the trio seeks to destroy the fascist occupiers. A labyrinthine plot with a supporting cast including the likes of the Baker Street Irregulars, Professor Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, and Irene Adler will introduce the listener to Sherlock Holmes as he has never been seen before.

Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, and Inspector Gregson, long out of touch with Sherlock Holmes, meet the great detective on 28 June 1914, the day of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The Germans have introduced a new code and it has baffled the British secret service. As international tensions increase and more messages in the new code are intercepted, the urgency to decrypt mounts, but Holmes is preoccupied with the events that form the narrative of His Last Bow.

A mystery fit to baffle the genius of Sherlock Holmes is one thing, but a mystery that also baffles the very embodiment of evil—Professor Moriarty? On a frozen winter's evening, an inexplicable force descends upon the innocent citizens of London. As Holmes and Watson scramble across icy rooftops in search of their foe, they confront the shattering truth that perhaps some mysteries remain best unsolved.

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on the wrong end of a carving knife at the legendary Simpson's-in-the-Strand restaurant, and the brutal slaying of the brilliant Hypatia of Alexandria in 415 CE may finally be solved.

The Discoveries Of Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes stories exclusively released on Kindle Unlimited to give fans the opportunity to sample Sherlockian writers from all over the world. One story per writer will appear each month. Number V is Chris Chan. The Adventure of “Lucky” Holmes Holmes and Watson are drawn into a case of international intrigue when a Chinese man visits them, asking for their help bringing down an international drug-running operation.

The Discoveries Of Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes stories exclusively released on Kindle Unlimited to give fans the opportunity to sample Sherlockian writers from all over the world. One story per writer will appear each month. Number I is Richard T. Ryan After Holmes learns that his new client suspects he is being poisoned, he ensconces him in a hotel under an alias, hoping to keep the man safe from his antagonist. However, when the man is found dead in his room, Holmes, feeling he has failed his client, is determined to bring the malefactor to justice.

Here are ten more traditional tales spanning Sherlock Holmes's illustrious career. Beginning with “The Matter of the Missing Mortician,” which London’s greatest detective solves without ever leaving his Baker Street sitting room to “The Conundrum of the Disputed Canvas,” which brings Holmes to Richmond Hill to resolve the authenticity of a painting of questionable origins. In between, an audacious new rival rises up to challenge Sherlock Holmes over two vexing cases. Then, an old enemy cleverly strikes at the hated detective from afar in “The Difficulty of the Distant Antagonist.

NAME: Patrick Coonan CODENAME: Delta OPERATION: Riverside ANNOTATIONS: Patrick Coonan is sent to Barranquilla, Colombia, on the trail of a missing US Navy submarine that his chief has promised Admiral Peter S. Seltzer will be located and brought back. But the Colonel is heavily relying on his man Delta to do the job... A gripping tale in which Pat is deprived of the company of his female partner Jessica, to be paired instead with a fiery freelance operative of Mexican ancestry whose temper is as explosive as the bombs she prepares.

Agent Delta and his partner Phi are sent to the island of Aruba for some major "house-cleaning". Rumors have it that the Ostrovsky Clan have invested millions on the sandy beaches of the Caribbean, precisely on Eagle Beach, where they have established a money-laundering network to filter the profits of their illegal operations from around the Globe and those from the Latin-American drug cartels in the area and the Islamic terrorist groups!

"Of all the conundrums that have puzzled Sherlockian scholars, few have been thornier than the "vexed question" of Dr. Watson's wives. In these ten stories, listeners will meet the all-but-unknown women who preceded and succeeded Mary Morstan, as well as learning more about poor Mary's fate. Other cases involve Our Heroes with all levels of Victorian society, including prime ministers and prostitutes, aristocrats and generals, amateur sleuths and Scotland Yarders, composers, novelists, and even ghosts.

A murder is committed on Baker Street in broad daylight, and the culprit is captured, but one man still has his doubts. Six new cases featuring Victorian England's greatest detective, these mysteries are sure to delight Holmes fans old and new.

In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was presumed drowned, consumed by the murky bog... In truth, the criminal mastermind survived the night to nurse his wounds and plot his revenge against Sherlock Holmes.

Darker than the night, like a piece of reality had been ripped out of the world to grant a view into the endless abyss of the void, a shape rose from the low hills of the moor, towering above all. Sherlock Holmes, his brother Mycroft, and their associate Mary Morstan are some of the most adept mages in London, safeguarding the peace of the city. Their daily life of solving crimes is interrupted when an ancient threat rises in Dartmoor.

As we know, Watson, the law is not always justice. So, on this occasion, justice cannot be the law." Presented within this volume are a further eight, previously unpublished, accounts by John H. Watson, M.D. These adventures bring Holmes and Watson face-to-face with thieves and murderers as well as bringing them into contact with the murky worlds of espionage and spiritualism. Why does a widow refuse to meet the orphaned daughter of her oldest friend? Who is responsible for the theft of monogrammed napkins from a dinner party?

What is a crimson trail? Is it blood? Or paint? Or yarn? Why would Sherlock Holmes revisit a previously solved case? How could an open window be important and how can a house be blackmailed? Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions in The Crimson Trail and Other Stories along with cases involving the disappearance of a poet's intended, a Christmas card clue, a missing tiara, a caped murderer, a vampire attack, and a mythical moor creature.

Nick Cardillo (author of The Feats of Sherlock Holmes) presents seven improbable adventures of the World's Greatest Detective collected for the first time in one place. These tales of mystery and suspense will test the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson like never before as they confront a wide array of monsters, madmen, impossible crimes, and the wildest aberrations of nature beyond their wildest nightmares.

Paired with the dazzling redhead Jessica Fitts, a.k.a. Agent Phi, Delta is sent to Colombia on a joint mission with a loose cannon from the OCF's Moscow Bureau. But in a murky world where nothing is what it seems, Agent Delta soon will learn that sometimes one must pact with the devil to avoid a greater evil.