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Four novella-length stories written to illuminate Lindsey Davis's unparalleled output of the last 30 years, with an introduction written and narrated by the author. Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective...

Der Hund der Baskervilles ist der dritte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, der einen Kriminalfall des Sherlock Holmes erzählt. Die Geschichte erschien von August 1901 bis April 1902 im Strand Magazine. Dieser Fall zählt zu den berühmtesten des Meisterdetektivs.

“And you are telling me,” said Gil Cunningham, “that David Drummond vanished away forty years ago and is now returned, seemingly not a day older?” “That’s about the sum of it,” agreed Sir William Stewart. In Sir William’s remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later, no older – and if he isn’t Davie Drummond, who is he? And then he suffers a succession of near-fatal ‘accidents’.

Eine Studie in Scharlachrot ist der erste gemeinsame Fall von Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson. Der Fall erschien erstmal im November 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual als Titelgeschichte. Bereits ein Jahr später wurde der Roman als Buch veröffentlicht.

Das Zeichen der Vier ist ein Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Es handelt 3 Jahre nach Eine Studie in Scharlachrot um den zweiten veröffentlichten Fall von Sherlock Holmes.

Butler Greeves war ein mächtiger Mann auf Stockbery Towers, einem Herrensitz in Kent zum Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Aber beliebt war er nicht. War er ein Erpresser? Ein Heiratsschwindler? Eines Tages wird er vergiftet aufgefunden. Wer von den Dienstboten hätte ihn ermorden wollen? Oder haben auch der Herzog nebst Gattin und ihre zur Jagd angereisten Gäste ein Motiv? Zuerst einmal verdächtigen alle den Chefkoch Auguste Didier. Was der Halbfranzose dem englischen Gaumen an französischer Küche zumutet, daran kann man sich schon leicht vergiften.

European tourists travel languidly along the Nile River to Abousir, at the southern frontier of Egypt, aboard “a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler,” the Korosko. But Dervish warriors threaten danger and then attack and kidnap the tourists. In this novel, Doyle explores themes of British Imperialism and a defensive European perspective on North Africa; racial paternalism; and debates on interference with other countries’ politics and religions. This wonderful novel was first published in 1898, long before Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.

London 1900 and Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating a string of murders that have one common thread -- each of them recalls one of his earlier cases. Has that great mind finally cracked - Watson wonders - and how is all this connected to Britain's latest secret weapon and the doings of the enigmatic Graf von Bork and the mysterious Society for Anglo-German Solidarity?

This novella comes from A Difficult Problem, a collection of six mystery stories by pioneer crime novelist, Anna Katharine Green. The plot is a curious reworking of the Bluebeard legend - a naive young woman becomes fascinted with a reclusive neighbour, and is led into a relationship with him. However, the neighbour has a dreadful secret....

Holmes is brought into the investigation of what appears a simple, obvious case of a son murdering his father shortly after the son was seen by witnesses near, and at, the scene of the man's death.

The Great Detective, by prominent Sherlock Holmes Society of London member Roger Johnson, offers the Holmesian another perspective on the beloved Canon. From a surrealist perspective, we find here a different and refreshing approach. We are transported to another time through the warmth of an English public house and immediately transfixed by the fascinating voices of those who contributed to the name Sherlock Holmes. This is a must listen for all those worshipers of the great detective.