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22. Dezember 1889, London. Um einige geruhsame Weihnachtstage in der englischen Hauptstadt zu verbringen, quartiert sich die Gräfin de Morcar mit ihrer Zofe Catherine Cusack im Londoner Nobelhotel "Cosmopolitan" ein. Als dort unter ungeklärten Umständen der wertvollste Diamant der Welt, der Blaue Karfunkel aus dem Besitz der Gräfin entwendet wird, droht die Situation plötzlich zu eskalieren.

Die unheimlichen Gerüchte, die sich um das uralte Anwesen "Stoke Moran" in Surrey ranken, scheinen ihre grausame Bestätigung zu finden, als dort eines Nachts eine junge Frau unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt. Denn es werden keinerlei Anzeichen äußerer Gewaltanwendung gefunden. Auch Gift läßt sich keines nachweisen. Und doch starb das Opfer eines qualvollen Todes... Sherlock Holmes wittert eine abgefeimte Bluttat hinter den schrecklichen Geschehnissen und begibt sich mit Dr. Watson vor Ort auf Spurensuche.

Als das Londoner Bankhaus "Holder & Stevenson" eine Kreditanfrage von einer hohen Persönlichkeit der britischen Gesellschaft erhält, fühlt Mr. Alexander Holder sich geschmeichelt. Beweist die Anfrage doch, welch tadellosen Ruf und welch großes Vertrauen er und seine Bank genießen. Doch schon bald schlägt das anfängliche Wohlgefühl ins glatte Gegenteil um; denn als Pfand für die Kreditsumme, deponiert der namhafte Kunde ein Prunkstück von unschätzbarem Wert in der Bank: Das Beryll-Diadem.

Holmes und Watson machen sich bereit für den Showdown. Es gilt den Kurier abzufangen und auch die restlichen Proben zu vernichten.

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty.

While investigating the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, a team led by Dr. Maracot is cut off from their ship and hurled to the bottom of the ocean. There, they find themselves in the remnants of the ancient civilization of Atlantis.

The Complete Original Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1: A Study in Scarlet: with Summary and Analysis invites listeners into the thrilling world of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This first volume features A Study in Scarlet, the story that introduced Holmes' unparalleled intellect and methodical approach to solving crimes.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential...

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier. Will Holmes and Watson reveal the real culprit?...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani În vreme ce poliția se străduiește să dea de urma rubinului furat, Holmes încearcă să organizeze o cină de Crăciun. Însă atunci când piatra prețioasă este găsită, Holmes și Watson se avântă într-o cursă contra cronometru pentru a salva viața unui om nevinovat. Această adaptare realizată de Stephanie Baudet a poveștii originale scrise de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, și superb ilustrată de Arianna Bellucci, te va încânta și te va purta în lumea fantastică a misterelor și a suspansului.

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett), Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova), Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre. None of the works included in the collection will leave an inquisitive and demanding reader indifferent.

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" heralded the triumphant resurrection of the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, after his apparent (and untimely) demise in the story "The Final Problem." Under intense pressure from his fans to bring him back after having killed off Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finally relented and, in "The Adventure of the Empty House," explains how Holmes escaped the same, dismal fate as his nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

Presented here are the third, fourth and fifth books of the Sherlock Holmes canon: the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and short story collections "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," all written by Holmes' legendary creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Collected here are some of the most beloved and revered of Doyle's Holmes stories.

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887).

Join the famous British detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he tries to find the killer, with the help of his friend, Dr Watson.

Un antiguo condiscípulo de Holmes, Reginald Musgrave, soltero, rico y miembro de una antigua familia, solicita su ayuda para que investigue la desaparición de su mayordomo, un hombre inteligente y eficaz, al que ha sorprendido en la biblioteca leyendo un antiguo papel.

Un joven ingeniero hidráulico de Londres, el Sr. Victor Hatherley, les relata los sucesos extraños de la noche anterior, primero al doctor Watson y luego a Sherlock Holmes en persona. Hatherley había sido visitado en su oficina por un hombre viejo y sospechoso que se identificó como el coronel Lysander Stark.

En la historia que tiene lugar en 1890, un prestamista londinense llamado Wilson, un hombre con "cabellos muy rojos", visita a Holmes y Watson. Les dice que su joven empleado, Vincent Spaulding, le había enseñado un anuncio que daba trabajo a alguien con pelo rojo en algo llamado "la Liga de los Pelirrojos" y le había dicho que se presentara para hacer una entrevista. A la mañana siguiente, Wilson había esperado en una cola llena de pelirrojos, fue entrevistado y fue el único candidato contratado, porque ninguno de los demás candidatos tenía un pelo tan rojo como el de Wilson.

En esta aventura, Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. Watson son visitados por Violet Hunter, una joven que ha recibido una oferta de empleo muy extraña. Un hombre llamado Rucastle le ha ofrecido un puesto de institutriz con un salario realmente bueno, pero ella sospecha de las condiciones de su empleo y del extraño comportamiento de su empleador.