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Detective fiction has never lacked devoted fans. The undying popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot vouch for that fact. In the early thirties, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an unobtrusive entry into the world of Bengali fiction. He preferred calling himself a satyanneshi, a seeker of truth, and within days was a household name, courtesy his cerebral skills and the exciting situations he found himself in. In the tradition of Doyle and Christie, Byomkesh is accompanied on his adventures by his friend, Ajit, slightly obtuse and the perfect foil to him.

Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world’s greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve crimes all over 19th-century America - from the bustling neighborhoods of New York, Boston, and D.C. to fog-shrouded San Francisco. The world’s best-loved British sleuth faces some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer and meets America’s most famous figures.

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

This follow-up to the national best-seller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger.

शिकारियों जैसी टोपी, टोपी लगा ओवरकोट और पाइप। गैस बत्तियों से रोशन, छोटे गोल पत्थरों वाली सड़कें और इंग्लैंड के शाही समंदर से 221-बी बेकर स्ट्रीट तक उड़कर आती धुंध। सर आर्थर कॉनन डॉयल की कल्पना से साकार विख्यात डिटेक्टिव शेरलॉक होम्स किसी परिचय के मोहताज नहीं हैं। 'ए स्कैंडल इन बोहेमिया' कहानी में शेरलॉक होम्स जब पहली बार सामने आए, तब से लेकर उनके कार्यकलापों का सिलसिला अनवरत जारी रहा। कई पीढि़यों से उनके प्रशंसक उन्हें पढ़ते आए हैं, और बेहद मामूली से सुराग से मुश्किल-से-मुश्किल केस को सुलझाने में वे अपनी जिस असाधारण बुद्धि और सहज ज्ञान का प्रयोग करते हैं, उससे पाठक अभिभूत हो जाते हैं।

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it", said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This audiobook is a part of a set of ten audiobooks of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and exciting stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it", said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This audiobook is a part of a set of ten audiobooks of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and exciting stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them.

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.

Als Jacques Futrelle zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts seine Erzählungen um die „Denkmaschine" veröffentlichte, betrat eine Figur die literarische Bühne, die das Genre der Detektivgeschichte auf seine ganz eigene, unverwechselbare Weise bereicherte: Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen. Van Dusen, von seinen Bewunderern wie von seinen Gegnern schlicht die „Denkmaschine" genannt, ist kein Detektiv im herkömmlichen Sinne. Wo andere Spuren lesen, vertraut er ausschließlich auf die Logik; wo andere Vermutungen anstellen, kennt er nur Gewissheiten.

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.

Seeking relief from a sweltering New York summer, Dr. Charles Fortescue witnesses a series of highly peculiar activities through his neighbor's window at the Rosemere apartment building. When a mysterious death occurs shortly after, the quiet neighborhood is plunged into a web of suspicion where...

A timeless collection of classic detective fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Red-Headed League, along with The Cabman’s Story. Written by Arthur Conan Doyle, this volume delivers suspense, clever deductions, and unforgettable Victorian mystery...

Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and concluding with The Hound of the Baskervilles, this epic project took over 8 years to complete - and this landmark collection contains the extraordinary result. Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart.

Se produce el bárbaro asesinato de dos mujeres, madre e hija, en un apartamento de una populosa calle de París. Las primeras investigaciones no dan resultado alguno, evidenciándose la impotencia de la policía para esclarecer los hechos. Finalmente se hace cargo del asunto un detective aficionado, M. Dupin, que tras una intensa y brillante investigación, ofrece una explicación extraordinaria. El audiolibro incluye los relatos “El pozo y el péndulo” y “El tonel de amontillado" de Edgar Allan Poe.

In the six volumes of the Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this 1907 collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the first volume, we find stories written by American authors.

Read by Hugh Fraser and Christopher Lee Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits—including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone...

Read by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of...

First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound. Then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure...the curious conduct of a caretaker after a fatal riding accident...the corpse and a tape-measure...the girl framed for theft...and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. Here are six gripping cases with one thing in common: the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.