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Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings reunite for their most difficult case yet. When Poirot receives a letter warning him that a crime is about to be committed by the writer: 'A.B.C' the friends find themselves in a race against time to decipher the killer's twisted logic as he taunts the great detective by announcing the next murder location alphabetically. With every new killing a new pool of suspects is uncovered. Can Poirot and Hastings unmask the killer before a final letter seals an innocent victim's fate?

Aquestes dues últimes setmanes han estat gairebé un somni fet realitat, pensa en Sam Numit mentre observa Eric Clapton i Bob Dylan parlar a l'altre extrem de la plaça i a B. B. King dormir estesa en una hamaca al costat de l'enorme rulot central de producció.

"¿Un ladrón? ¿Grace había salido tras él? ¿Quizás el intruso huyó con la billetera en la mano? No tenía sentido. Las dos puertas estaban abiertas, pedía jurarlo. No era una pesadilla como la que acababa de tener. Siempre la misma. Siempre soñaba que se quedaba mudo en el escenario y la gente le arrollaba". En esta sexta entrega de la saga de sus aventuras, recorreremos con nuestro detective rockero los entramados y las oscuridades de Los Angeles en la investigación de un nuevo crimen.

En esta ocasión es el propio Sam la víctima de un insólito robo que hará que la copia original (así como el máster y la copia de trabajo) de su último disco desaparezcan misteriosamente del estudio... Una trepidante historia policiaca y de aventuras en la quinta entrega de la serie de aventuras del detective más rockero de la historia.

"Un lladre? La Grace havia sortit després d'ell? Potser l'intrús va fugir amb la cartera a la mà? No tenia sentit. Les dues portes estaven obertes, demanava jurar-ho. No era un malson com el que acabava de tenir. Sempre el mateix. Sempre somiava que es quedava mut a l'escenari i la gent l’atropellava". En aquest sisè lliurament de la saga de les seves aventures, recorrerem amb el nostre detectiu "rocker" els entramats i les foscors de Los Angeles a la recerca d'un nou crim.

En aquesta ocasió és el mateix Sam la víctima d'un insòlit robatori que farà que la còpia original (així com el màster i la còpia de treball) del seu últim disc desaparegui misteriosament de l'estudi... Una trepidant història policíaca i d'aventures en el cinquè lliurament de la sèrie d'aventures del detectiu més "rocker" de la història. Sam Numit és un rocker d'èxit que ha compartit escenari amb músics de la talla de Sting, Jim Morrisson o Freddie Mercury.

Siguiendo su instinto y su orgullo de artista con el respeto y admiración que le profesa a la música, Sam Numit no puede dejar de investigar el asesinato de Blow Andrews, el cantante revelación del año, ocurrido durante un concierto organizado por el propio Sam, Bruce Springsteen, Sting y Peter Gabriel, y retransmitido mundialmente desde el estadio de Wembley, en Londres.

Seguint el seu instint i el seu orgull d'artista amb el respecte i admiració que professa a la música, Sam Numit no pot deixar d'investigar l'assassinat de Blow Andrews, el cantant revelació de l'any, ocorregut durant un concert organitzat pel mateix Sam, Bruce Springsteen, Sting i Peter Gabriel, i retransmès mundialment des de l'estadi de Wembley, a Londres. Del cantant revelació ara mort se sap que va ser odiat per tots: els seus músics, el seu productor, el director del seu segell discogràfic, el seu manager, i fins i tot les dones que el van estimar...

A la primera saga de les seves aventures, el detectiu Sam Numit es veurà abocat a la recerca de les circumstàncies que envolten la mort d’en Frank Powell, el cantant que el va ajudar a entrar en el món de la música, perquè li costa creure que hagi mort per sobredosi, que es tracti d'un accident, o fins i tot d'un suïcidi.

When Howard Duff, radio’s regular Sam Spade, was dropped from the show, Steven Dunne donned the trench coat. Finding his own brash and boyish style with the role, Dunne’s Spade was much like creator Dashiell Hammett himself - a grown-up teenager who loved a put-on, but could be depended on to be loyal and true despite his own troubles. In these digitally remastered capers, Hammett’s hard-boiled hero delves in to the domains of daytime serials, journalism, the waterfront, and international intrigue.

On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon.

The Railway Detective faces his most dangerous adversary yet. It is 1852, and Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most complex and difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled from a carriage and plummets into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to death. With no papers by which to identify the man, the detectives' investigation is hampered from the start. Suspecting that the victim may have come from continental Europe, Colbeck and Leeming take the case to France where a new railway is being built by a British contractor.

With a quick mind and a quicker tongue (occasionally planted firmly in cheek), Dashiell Hammett's daring detective takes the case, takes a few punches, takes the dough (when there is any), and takes advantage of Effie's...good nature, in eight digitally restored and remastered capers.

At a construction site, Bill Woods, the foreman, is shot dead while he's on the 20th floor. For the second week, Richard Kollmar is not heard during the program. Blackie does manage to croak a few words while sick in bed (possibly voiced by Jackson Beck).

A wealthy man hires Spade to protect him from his former employee, who is just out of prison after five years. Sam is at the morgue. Someone has been killed, and Sam knows who did it. But, he wishes that he didn't.

Sam has been hired by Miss Elizabeth Collie to investigate a number of thefts that have occurred at the Miss Wigginson School for Girls. Herself and Ursula Cavanagh, one of the board directors, have decided that they know who the culprit is, they just have to prove it. They have no evidence, but they just want Sam to prove that their suspicions are correct.

Sam is hired to find a drunken engineer, who is promptly found scalped. A valuable wampum belt is stolen. Indian Chief Black Cloud wants to employ Sam Spade to find someone. Chief Black Cloud owns 130 oil wells and had come to San Francisco to talk to Clarence Hobart from a big engineering company, then after four days Hobart has disappeared.

Sam Spade dictates a letter through Effie to John M. Lawless, a known gangster who hired Sam Spade yesterday. The subject was Joe Moralis. Flashback to when San Francisco was recovering from VJ Day and crime was practically at a standstill because the number-one competitor in the west coast mob had just been wiped out in a hit-and-run accident and Lawless was on trial for the same. Nothing about the trial made any sense. Lawless was taking the rap for his best friend Joe Moralis and what made even less sense was that the lawyer defending him was Joe’s brother.

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - "The Hound of the Baskervilles". In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to "Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes".