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Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson haben zusammen mit Miss Copper die Verfolgung des bestialischen Verbrechers Professor Flax und seiner Verbündeten, der Kreolin, aufgenommen. Ihre Jagd führt sie bis nach Algier. Dort werden Sie von dem Generalgouverneur um Hilfe gebeten, da ein gewisser Oberst Marchant auf mysteriöse Art und Weise verschwunden zu sein scheint. Schnell kommt Holmes dem Rätsel auf die Spur und enthüllt damit ein weiteres, grauenhaftes Verbrechen des Professor Flax.

Sherlock Holmes, der seit geraumer Zeit zusammen mit Dr. Watson in New York verweilt, empfängt eine junge Dame, die ihn um Hilfe bittet. Ihre beste Freundin liegt im Sterben, nachdem zuvor bereits deren Vater und die beiden Brüder in kürzester Zeit ums Leben kamen. Holmes ahnt zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht, dass er es mit dem größten und skrupellosesten Verbrecher dieser Zeit zu tun bekommt.

Es ist endlich geschafft! Professor Flax sitzt im Gefängnis von Algier und wird streng bewacht. Doch mit Hilfe seiner verbündeten Kreolin und einem neuerlichen, abscheulichen Verbrechen, schafft Flax es erneut zu fliehen. Natürlich nehmen Holmes und Watson sofort wieder die Verfolgung auf. Diese führt sie nach Korfu. Lange sind die Beiden auf der Suche nach einer neuen Spur, bis Holmes diese schließlich anhand einer Falschmünzerbande entdeckt.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson verweilen in Paris, als der Chef des Detektive-Büros "International“ Holmes einlädt, ihn in den Pariser Adelsklub einzuführen. Dort wird Holmes Zeuge einer Wette zwischen Madame d'Atalide und Lord Curzon. Die Madame behauptet, einen Zirkus gewinnorientiert führen zu können, was in den Augen des Lords purer Unfug und absolut nicht möglich ist. Madame d'Atalide erwirbt daraufhin den Zirkus Angelo und es dauert nicht lange, bis dieser die ersten Gewinne abwirft. Doch Zeitgleich geschieht auch der erste Mord.

Magnus der Rote ist ein Meister des Mystischen, der schon seit langer Zeit die uralten Künste der Hexerei studiert. Seine psionischen Kräfte suchen ihresgleichen und werden nur von denen des Imperators übertroffen. Während des Großen Kreuzzuges führt er die Legion der Thousand Sons von Welt zu Welt, stets auf der Suche nach verschollenem Wissen, welches in den Trümmern der Vergangenheit verborgen liegt.

Will God do what he says he promises? Can we trust his intentions? Is he even good? Without guidance, these doubt-filled questions can hinder spiritual progress and lead to discouragement. Thankfully, the Bible offers encouraging examples of men and women who remained faithful to God even through seasons of uncertainty.

Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world's great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different cultural backgrounds that make up this rainbow nation, helping you to better understand the values that underpin its diverse society. It reveals how modern Indonesians view themselves and go about their daily lives, and gives advice on how to navigate unfamiliar situations.

Modern Aged Middle Life (MAML) is a podcast by comedy writers Emily Baum and Graham Jarvis dealing with the perplexing stuff that happens in modern life. The two MAML's try to explain the baffling and rationalise the irrational - like human tears in cocktails! Join us on our journey of laughing at life.

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.'

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love.

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.

Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of smuggling, jewel theft and international espionage which culminates in a dramatic showdown in Panama.

Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.

In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondness for drink - is kidnapped by rebels in a case of mistaken identity. The young but world-weary Doctor Eduardo Plarr, is left to pick up the pieces and secure Fortnum's release, wading through a sea of incompetence and unearthing corruption among authorities and revolutionaries in the process.

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. But neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

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