検索キーワード： 著者 "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" すべてのカテゴリー

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Ein mysteriöser Moorleichenfund führt Holmes und Watson zurück nach Devonshire, wo sie einst gemeinsam dem Hund von Baskerville auf der Spur gewesen waren. Diesmal geht es allerdings nicht um eine alte Familienlegende; vielmehr weist der Leichnam anatomische Besonderheiten auf – könnte es sich um den ersten Urmenschenfund Englands handeln?

Ein frischvermähltes Ehepaar wendet sich an Holmes und Watson, um Licht in eine dunkle Familienangelegenheit zu bringen: Mehrere Verwandte der jungen Mrs Bedford sind unter ungeklärten Umständen verstorben. Das Problem nur: Die Todesfälle liegen Jahrzehnte zurück; einzige Informationsquelle ist eine Handvoll Briefe.

Eine Frau besucht spätabends die Baker Street, weil ihr Mann spurlos verschwunden ist; im Gepäck den Durchschlag eines ominösen Briefs. Er ist an eine gewisse Alba adressiert. Handelt es sich um einen gewöhnlichen Fall von Ehebruch oder steckt mehr dahinter?

Der mysteriöse, winterliche Tod einer jungen Sportlerin durch einen Sturz vom Balkon – ist es Mord oder Suizid? – führen Holmes, Watson und Holmes' junge Assistentin Miss Adler diesmal in die Welt des Frauentennis', eines noch jungen Phänomens im viktorianischen England.

Watson und Mary ziehen vorübergehend in der Baker Street ein, da scheint auch schon der nächste Fall ins Haus zu stehen: Der leitende Architekt der Londoner U-Bahn wittert Sabotage beim Bau der Tunnel. Holmes ist zunächst wenig überzeugt - bis sich in einem von ihnen ein Leichnam findet.

Eine Ärztin sucht Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street auf, weil eine Patientin von ihr verschwunden ist – eine Prostituierte aus Whitechapel. Könnte sie einer dubiosen medizinischen Behandlung zum Opfer gefallen sein? Holmes, Watson und Miss Adler ermitteln.

London, 22. Juni 1896 - während die ganze Stadt das 60-jährige Thronjubiläum von Queen Victoria feiert, wird aus einer Ausstellung am Stadtrand ein kleines Schmuckstück entwendet. Vieles an dem Fall ist rätselhaft: Warum gerade dieses Objekt? Und wie ist der Dieb überhaupt in das Gebäude gelangt? Miss Adler konfrontiert Holmes und Watson schließlich mit einer abenteuerlichen Erklärung - doch wäre ein solcher Tathergang überhaupt möglich...?

Joseph Habakuk Jephson, a soldier who was hurt in the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War, is in convalescence. One day, an old Black maid offers him a Black oval-shaped stone which belonged to her ancestors. At the end of the war, Jephson gets married and establishes himself as a doctor in Brooklyn. Conan Doyle has been inspired by the real case of the ship Mary Celeste which was found drifting in the Atlantic off Portugal, under full sail but apparently abandoned.

Professor von Baumgarten, an expert about mesmerism and spirits, is convinced that the spirit of hypnotized people can leave the body, travel around, and come back at will. But there is one problem: the spirit can't be seen and no evidence can be given... This is the first fiction dealing with spirits, 30 years before his active involvement in the spiritualism cause.

Mr. Hammond, who is travelling on the American steamer "The Spartan", is suspicious about two passengers after having witnessed their conversation on the deck. They were talking about a secret square box, a mechanism, and the fact that the world will soon hear of it...

John McVittie, a scientist tired of human beings, decides to retire in an isolated cottage on the shores of Scotland so he can work in his laboratory room quietly. During a strong stormy night, a boat named "Archangel" is shipwrecked near his house. Reluctant at first, he consents to see if he can be of any help. He saves the, apparently, only living survivor from the shipwreck...

The Captain of the Polestar (and Other Tales) is a collection of short stories by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1883. ' The Captain of the Pole-Star ' is one of the best examples of Conan Doyle's weird fiction. This is a superb collection of strange mystery tales that are all independent, sometimes involving ship voyages, shipwrecks, amnesia, lost love, grand thefts, comedy, and fairy tales. Contents: The Captain of the "Pole-Star" / J.

Recently unemployed, John Huxford accepts an offer to work at Sheridan & Moore, Montreal in Quebec. He agrees with his fiancée that he will first travel alone to prepare everything for a few weeks before she can join him. Unfortunately, weeks, months pass and she gets no news from John. Sheridan & Moore even say they never saw him in Montreal. Many years pass, and it seems that he has died somewhere or started a new life.

The narrator of the story is passionate about writing. He decides to take a few weeks to write a masterpiece, but inspiration does not come. One evening after supper, he falls asleep and dreams that the greatest writers of the last few centuries are invited to his table to create a story: William Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, William M. Thackeray, James Payn, Walter Besant, a lady known as "Ouida", Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Captain Marryat.

Mr. John Vansittart Smith is a student of Egyptology who travels to France to see some papyri in the Louvre Museum. Tired from his visit, he sits in a corner of the museum and dozes. When he wakes up, the museum is closed and he is locked inside...

Elias B. Hopkins, aka "The Parson", is a new reverend at Jackman's Gulch, a small miner village in Australia. In the local bar, swearing and blasphemies are not uncommon. That's why he decides to recite the Bible aloud for each bad word he hears. So much that he who swears is now frowned upon by his peers for breaking the atmosphere.

For reasons that are unclear, Nicholas Craigie, Captain of the Pole-Star, decides to anchor in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, contrary to the opinion of his crew. Indeed, the boat could be trapped in the ice at any moment, resulting in a sudden death for everyone. One morning Mr. Manson, the second mate, reports he saw a ghost at night. His story is not taken seriously, and is put down to idleness.

Robert Armitage tells how his friend John Barrington Cowles died in strange circumstances. In the spring of 1879, the two students visited an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. This is where Cowles met a beautiful lady named Kate Northcott, and they instantly fell in love with each other.

Discover the thrilling tale of The Speckled Band An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, a three-act play adapted from Arthur Conan Doyles acclaimed short story. Published originally in The Strand Magazine in 1892, it took Doyle a mere week to transform his story into this captivating play in 1910. This swift adaptation was driven by the sudden failure of another of Doyles plays, The House of Temperley, due to an unexpected month-long closure of the theatre. Doyles financial stakes in the theatre spurred him to quickly pen The Speckled Band and initiate rehearsals. Upon the theatres reopening, the ...