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Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Master of Mystery by Jack London.

A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets. The Organisation wants Ishmael to find out if Frank Parker is who he says he is, what he really knows, and why he has emerged from the shadows after all this time. Ishmael heads to Ringstone Lodge in Yorkshire where Parker is being held to find that an atmosphere of fear and suspicion prevails. As he and his fellow residents are menaced by a series of alarming and inexplicable incidents, Ishmael sets out to prove that it’s human trickery rather than any supernatural being behind the seemingly ghostly goings-on.

In "Die Gloria Scott" erzählt Sherlock Holmes seinen ersten Fall. Er kommt darauf, als er Watson einen Brief zeigt, dessen Inhalt augenscheinlich harm- und sinnlos ist. Dennoch genügte er einst, um einen alten Mann zu Tode zu erschrecken. Die Geschichte: Victor Trevor, ein Kommilitone und Holmes' einziger Studienfreund, lädt Holmes zu sich nach Norfolk ein. Trevors Vater fordert Holmes, von dessen Methoden er gehört hat, heraus: Er soll ihm sagen, was er über ihn deduzieren kann. Holmes findet u. a. heraus, dass Trevor senior in Verbindung zu einer Person mit dem Kürzel J.A. steht.

The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime. The other is "The Boscombe Valley Mystery".