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Dies ist der erste Band von den neuen Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes: Über Jahre hinweg begleitete Dr. John H. Watson seinen Freund und Kompagnon Sherlock Holmes bei der Aufklärung einer Vielzahl von Verbrechen und Geheimnissen. Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. Davon zeugen die schriftlichen Notizen Watsons, die dieser gewissenhaft angelegt hat, und in denen von den Abenteuern von Sherlock Holmes erzählt wird.

Enthält: Maigret und die Affäre Saint-Fiacre (13. Fall) / Maigret bei den Flamen (14. Fall) / Maigret und der geheimnisvolle Kapitän (15. Fall) / Maigret und der Verrückte von Bergerac (16. Fall) / Maigret in der Liberty Bar (17. Fall) / Maigret und die Schleuse Nr. 1 (18. Fall) / Maigret und sein Neffe (19. Fall) / Maigret und die Keller des Majestic (20. Fall). In seinem 13. Fall, Maigret und die Affäre Saint-Fiacre, führt es den Kommissar zurück in seinen Geburtsort. Ein anonymes Schreiben weist auf ein Verbrechen in der Kirche von Saint-Fiacre hin.

Rabbi Klein ermittelt wieder! Sein fünter Fall führt ihn unter anderem in die Vergangenheit seiner Familie. Kunstmäzenatin Bianca Himmelfarb floh als Kind aus Nazi-Deutschland über die Schweiz – mit Unterstützung von Kleins Großvater, der sich als Fluchthelfer engagierte. Nur kurz nach Rabbi Kleins Besuch bei der alten Bekannten wird ihre Leiche gefunden. Außer Klein glaubt niemand an ein Verbrechen, und so beginnt er selbst zu ermitteln ...

FEAT DESCViolet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Obwohl die Sonderermittler nach wie vor noch unter dem Eindruck von Mycroft Holmes_ Tod stehen, müssen sie sich direkt zwei neuen Fällen widmen. Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes gehen einer mysteriösen Brandserie in Edinburgh nach. Währenddessen stellen Irene Adler und Mr. Wu in einem kleinen Dorf in Irland Ermittlungen an. Eine alte Legende, die von einem Hexendiadem, dem Diadem der Macht, handelt, scheint tödliche Realität zu werden. Und plötzlich befinden sich nicht nur die Dorfbewohner, sondern auch Irene Adler und Mr. Wu in Lebensgefahr.

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, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

ي إطارٍ من التشويق والإثارة، نتعرف على أولى مغامرات المحقق الشهير شيرلوك هولمز، من تأليف السير آرثر كونان دويل.

يلجأ ملك بوهميا إلى المحقق الشهير شيرلوك هولمز وصديقه واتسون، لينقذه من تهديدٍ يلاحقه من مغنية أوبرا شهيرة كان على علاقةٍ بها، تسعى لفضح علاقتهما بصورةٍ تجمعهما. وفي الوقت نفسه، كان من المقرر له أن يتزوج أميرة إسكندنافية شابة، ويخشى أن تلغي أسرتها -ذات المبادئ الصارمة- الزواج إذا علموا بتلك العلاقة السرية.

Anthony Head, famed for his TV roles in Buffy and Little Britain, reads these stories inspired by one of the most successful BBC radio serials of the Twentieth Century.

Toby Stephens reads three thrilling unabridged novels by Francis Durbridge. In Paul Temple Intervenes, the murder of a well-known American heralds a spate of celebrity deaths that become known as the Marquis murders. The police are baffled, and the Home Secretary is calling for Paul Temple to intervene...

Three unabridged readings of original novels from the creator of Paul Temple. Three unabridged readings of original novels from the creator of Paul Temple. In The Desperate People, read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt is determined to uncover the truth about the death of his brother, Rex, and those who were responsible for it. In Dead to the World, also read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt's skills are again in demand after he meets Robert Scranton, a wealthy American, on a plane returning to England from the USA.

Ramona Chang has a target on her back. Her last scoop as an investigative journalist saw a local gang leader brought to trial, and he wants revenge. From her run-down flat in east London Ramona is trying to start afresh as a private detective, but her latest case - that of a young woman assaulted by a man running an upmarket escort agency - has hit a dead end. Until, that is, she crosses paths with Madeleine Farrow.

For decades, bestselling author J. R. Alastor, king of the murder mystery, has hidden in the shadows. His novels adorn countless bookshelves across the world, but no one knows his real name. One day, event coordinator Mila del Angél gets a message: Alastor wants her help to host a murder mystery retreat on his private island. It’s the perfect cover for Mila to finally carry out her long-held plans for revenge on one of the authors, a ghost from her past. But when a different guest turns up dead, she finds herself in a lethal game she didn’t plan for.

Dive into the gripping world of Scene 17, where classic Hollywood glamour meets modern-day intrigue. This novel begins with the mysterious vanishing of Alan Ascot, a fading star of the silver screen whose disappearance mirrors the plot of his most iconic film, The Final Curtain. Follow Detective Whitney Abbott, a relentless investigator juggling motherhood and murder cases, as she unravels the enigma behind Ascot’s cryptic Instagram post and the shadowy past that threatens to consume him.

Elisabeth Aberdeen ist spurlos verschwunden. Sie ist die einzige Tochter des Londoner Wucherers, Phineas Aberdeen, der durch seine zwielichtigen Geldgeschäfte großen Reichtum erlangte. Nun sitzt der junge Lord William Rochester auf der Anklagebank im Gerichtssaal und erwartet sein Urteil. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, Elisabeth entführt und getötet zu haben. Doch kurz vor der Urteilsverkündung unterbricht Sherlock Holmes die Verhandlung. Er bürgt für den Angeklagten Lord Rochester und schwört innerhalb von drei Tagen dessen Unschuld bewiesen und die junge Elisabeth wiedergefunden zu haben.

Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are broke. What are two young people in post-WWI London to do in such a situation except start up a new and exciting business: Young Adventurer’s Ltd. Almost as soon as they make the leap into self-employment a case falls into their lap. A mysterious man wishes to hire Tuppence for a job. All she has to do is impersonate a young American woman in Paris. Easy!

An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels compelled to pursue her. However, he quickly finds that he has a rival for the lady's affections, a man of great wealth and power. Miss Hurd takes flight, but Ruxton is unable to forget her. When he later sees her again on a streetcar in New York he finds himself drawn into a mysterious web of tragedy and evil.

As a scientist, Sherlock Holmes would have certainly been familiar with the famous dictum attributed to Aristotle: Nature abhors a vacuum. In that same vein, fans of the Great Detective must look at 1885 and 1886 and see a somewhat similar void. Conan Doyle set no cases during those years; in fact, if you believe Doyle, Holmes and Watson remained inactive for a period of some 30 months.

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.

Eine brutale Mordserie versetzt Sylt in Angst und Schrecken: die neue Nordsee-Thrillerserie von Bestsellerautor Martin Krüger Eigentlich wollte Fria Nordström in ihrem geerbten Kapitänshaus auf Sylt einen Neuanfang starten und mit den düsteren Erinnerungen an Hamburg und das LKA abschließen. Aber schon an ihrem ersten Tag wird die Kommissarin nach List gerufen: Der alte Seemann Tammo Mattes wurde erhängt aufgefunden. Ein Selbstmord? Doch die Umstände seines Todes sind so rätselhaft, dass Frias Misstrauen geweckt ist.