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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (1927), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated.

"By the table, in a wooden arm-chair, the master of the house was seated all in a heap, with his head sunk upon his left shoulder, and that ghastly, inscrutable smile upon his face. He was stiff and cold, and had clearly been dead many hours. It seemed to me that not only his features but all...

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

„Un caz de identitate” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează dispariția misterioasă a unui bărbat chiar în ziua nunții sale. O tânără îi cere ajutorul detectivului pentru a-l găsi pe logodnicul ei, care a dispărut...

First published in 1890, The Sign of the Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has received a present of a rare and lustrous pearl. Now, on the day she is summoned to meet her anonymous benefactor, she consults Holmes and Watson.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles. The title of the British collection was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (hyphenated "Case-Book"), whereas the title of the American edition was The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ("Case Book" as two words).

Lady Maberley wird gedrängt, ihr Haus samt Inhalt zu verkaufen. Als es dann noch zu einem Einbruch kommt, entdeckt Holmes ein Manuskript. Darin äußert sich Maberleys Sohn Douglas kritisch über eine ehemalige Geliebte. Diese Isadora Klein versuchte mit allen Mitteln, an das Manuskript zu kommen, um es zu vernichten.

Scotland Yard bittet Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in einem heiklen Mordfall um Hilfe. Das Opfer ist ein jüdischer Bankier, weswegen Inspektor Lestrade den Verdacht eines rassistischen Verbrechens verfolgt.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden zu einer Karnevalsfeier gerufen, in deren Rahmen sich ein Mord ereignet hat. Alle Anwesenden kommen als potenzielle Täter in Frage. Die Ermittlungen werden zudem dadurch erschwert, dass die Gäste in Kostümen erschienen sind.

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that as of the date of publication (1917), Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.

"The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

"His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to "Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes".

Sherlock Holmes bekommt einen neuen Auftrag: Ein gewisser Dr. Jekyll hat Ärger mit jemandem, der sich für ihn ausgibt und seine Patientinnen besucht. Es ist Mr. Hyde, der seine bösen Spielchen auch mit Dr. Watson treibt.

Der Mann, der verdreht, aber hip war: Wir schreiben das Jahr 1897, Frankreich ist durch die Dreyfus-Affäre zerrissen. Westminster braucht Sherlock Holmes' Hilfe, um die Ausbreitung des Antisemitismus, der Frankreich erfasst hat, zu verhindern. Ein junger Offizier im Auswärtigen Amt kündigt plötzlich seinen Posten. Seine Frau bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe.

A young woman explains to Holmes that an unknown man has been following her by bicycle on her weekly trips from the house where she works to the railroad station. Having met two friends of her recently deceased uncle, one of the men, Carruthers, hires her as a governess and later proposes to her. The young woman, being already engaged, declines. The other man, Woodley, disturbs her with rude behavior and romantic advances. Holmes connects the clues and arrives in time to solve the mystery of the unknown cyclist and to save Smith after she is kidnapped by Woodley.

Sherlock Holmes bekommt einen neuen Auftrag: Ein gewisser Dr. Jekyll hat Ärger mit jemandem, der sich für ihn ausgibt und seine Patientinnen besucht. Es ist Mr. Hyde, der seine bösen Spielchen auch mit Dr. Watson treibt.

First appearing in print in 1890, the character of Sherlock Holmes has now become synonymous worldwide with the concept of a super sleuth. His creator, Conan Doyle, imbued his detective hero with intellectual power, acute observational abilities, a penchant for deductive reasoning and a highly educated use of forensic skills. Indeed, Doyle created the first fictional private detective who used what we now recognize as modern scientific investigative techniques.

Als Holmes an einem drückenden Sommertag mit seinen Bekannten auf Coney Island spazieren geht, hätte er nie vermutet, dass ihn der Fluch von Auburn noch einmal einholen würde. Der ermordete Bankier James Pullman hinterlässt seine attraktive Frau und zwei kleine Kinder, die sich offenbar alle gerne in dieser Affäre an Holmes wenden. Er ist sich bewusst, dass Lady Pullman ein Opfer all dieser Machenschaften ist, da sie offenbar über keinerlei Einzelheiten Bescheid wusste. Aber könnte sie auch Täterin sein? Denn, was hatte ihr Kutscher und Hausdiener im Gefängnis von Auburn zu suchen?

Das Rätsel der Thor-Brücke ist ein Fall von Sherlock Holmes von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, der in der Sammlung Sherlock Holmes' Buch der Fälle erscheint. Die Geschichte wurde ursprünglich im Strand Magazine und Hearst's International Magazine im Jahr 1922 veröffentlicht. Neil Gibson, der Goldkönig und ehemaliger Senator in einem der Weststaaten der USA, beauftragt Holmes, den Mörder seiner Frau Maria zu finden. Das will er aber nur, um die Gouvernante seiner Kinder, Grace Dunbar, zu entlasten.