Classic Detective

La famiglia Tregennis infatti viene colpita da una maledizione inspiegabile che uccide una povera donna e fa letteralmente impazzire per l'orrore i suoi due fratelli. Cosa può aver causato un tragedia del genere? Per risolvere il caso Sherlok Holmes e il fido Watson rischieranno addirittura la vita affrontando l'orrore nascosto del misterioso "piede del Diavolo".

Le giornate sonnacchiose che Sherlock Holmes aveva destinato a un periodo di riposo lontano da Londra, sono interrotte all'improvviso da un telegramma che contiene una richiesta d'aiuto. Un onesto borghese del Surrey è stato coinvolto in un oscuro caso di omicidio e il celebre investigatore decide di assisterlo. Si appassiona immediatamente a quello che fin da subito sembra un enigma senza soluzione.

L'intuito del più celebre investigatore del mondo, quello che gli ha permesso di risolvere i più intricati misteri e di smascherare i criminali più spietati, raramente ha fallito. Molto raramente. Le indagini però, a volte possono rivelarsi più complesse di quello che appare, talmente insidiose da mettere in difficoltà anche Sherlock Holmes.

Una tutrice riceve un'offerta per un incarico troppo facile e troppo ben pagato; per fortuna prima di accettare chiede un parere al grande detective, che fin dall'inizio intuisce che l'allettante proposta può nascondere delle insidie.

London, 1942. Flight Lieutenant David Heron, home on convalescent leave, awakes to the news that a murder victim has been discovered in the garden of his boardinghouse. With a week until his service resumes, David sets out to solve the murder. Drawn into a world of mystery and double-dealing, he soon realises that there is more to the inhabitants of the boardinghouse than meets the eye and that wartime London is a place where opportunism and the black market are able to thrive. Can he solve the mystery before his return to the skies?

A desaparición de una importante carta de un monarca europeo está a punto de tener consecuencias imprevisibles, cuando Lord Bellinger, dos veces presidente del Consejo de Gran Bretaña, y el muy ilustre Trelawney Hope visitan a Holmes en Baker Street.

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.

Se avete amato il libro, impossibile perdere la versione audiolibro di uno dei più famosi romanzi di Agatha Christie: C'è un Cadavere in Biblioteca...

As we listen to each character tell their version of the events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds to the final and astonishing denouement of the first, and most magnificent, English detective novel.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. This unusual tale by Roy Vickers follows Scotland Yard as they investigate the mysterious death of the wife of a famous clown.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. Detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers presents a look at morality and motive as playwright John Scales grows angrier and more resentful towards the actor who reinvented his script, and must decide how far he will allow his hatred to take him.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. The strange new owner of a run-down theatre tells the tale of how a man was killed on its stage many years ago, in full view of an audience, and why the murder was never solved despite the many witnesses.

In “Tom Sawyer, Detective,” Mark Twain combines detective work and adventure to create a classic quest that captures the spirit of youth and the excitement of uncovering mysteries. An electrifying, non-stop detective story that everyone will love.

Sobre la familia Baskerville pesa una terrible maldición: cuando a uno de sus miembros se le acerca la muerte, un endemoniado perro se le aparece. Y esto es lo que le parece haber ocurrido a sir Charles, el último Baskerville, cuya temprana muerte ha estado estado precedida por unos amenazantes aullidos.

Los crímenes de la calle Morgue, también conocido como Los asesinatos de la calle Morgue o Los asesinatos de la rue Morgue, es un cuento del género policíaco y de terror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, publicado por primera vez en la revista Graham's Magazine, de Filadelfia, en el mes de abril de 1841. Se trata del primer relato de detectives propiamente dicho de la historia de la literatura, es decir, la primera historia sobre detectives que reúne todos los elementos que más tarde van a retomarse como característicos de las novelas policiales.

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

Aristide Valentin holds a dinner party in his secret garden, which only has one main entrance. Many people are invited. Julius K. Brayne, one of Valentin’s rivals, is of the party as well. Everything goes as planned until one group of guests finds a beheaded corpse and the dinner turns into an investigation. Many questions begin to arise: How could someone be killed in a closed back garden without anyone noticing? Who is the victim? Who is the murderer? Where is the head? Find out the answers in "The Secret Garden". B. J.

It is strange to consider that, although The Hound Of The Baskervilles is Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, his hero is absent for much of the time. Notice how he sets up an atmosphere of supernatural horror right from the start through Dr Mortimer’s reading of the ancient curse, and how he then presents as assortment of bizarre clues – in particular, the riddle of the missing boots – which Holmes will have to unravel.

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?

In book 13, dogs are disappearing from the village, but the Seven are so busy arguing and falling out with each other that they don't even notice. Then poor Scamper becomes the latest victim, and it's all systems go for the Secret Seven! Solve the mystery!