Showing results for "Rituals" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing...

Wer kann wissen, ob es uns morgen noch gibt, oder ob wir noch dieselben sein werden? Alida Montesi, Chris Morenz, Björn Sommersacher und Dominik Steiner lesen Geschichten über ihre Rituale des Verschwindens."Zusammenreißen? Einen Scheiß werd' ich tun, ich reiß' mich nicht zusammen sondern aus-ein-an-der, in tausende von Fetzen, um sie in die Menge zu streuen - ich will mich verteilen, verschenken, verschwenden!"Inhalt: Intro, Angsthasenspiel - Alida Montesi, Pillenknick - Chris Morenz, Es liegt ja nicht an mir, dass ich hier falsch liege - Björn Sommersacher.

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection. In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. They dive into the opium dens of London in "The Man with the Twisted Lip," recall the curious history of "The Musgrave Ritual," come face to face with the grisly evidence contained in "The Cardboard Box," and go on a wild-goose chase in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle." The powers of Sherlock Holmes prevail.

Un antiguo condiscípulo de Holmes, Reginald Musgrave, soltero, rico y miembro de una antigua familia, solicita su ayuda para que investigue la desaparición de su mayordomo, un hombre inteligente y eficaz, al que ha sorprendido en la biblioteca leyendo un antiguo papel.

Digging into his tin box of papers one day, Holmes recounts for Dr. Watson one of his earliest cases. In it, Holmes must decipher the ancient Musgrave Ritual to solve the mysterious disappearance of schoolmate Reginald Musgrave's butler and maid, after Musgrave terminates the butler for secretly reading the text of the ceremony.

The butler of Reginald Musgrave, one of Holmes' former schoolmates, has disappeared, and the local police can't solve the case. Holmes travels to the Musgrave estate and once there not only discovers the butler, but also finds out about the origin of the centuries-old Musgrave Ritual.