Great Mysteries

Esteemed Professor Douglas Russell, PhD and Inspector Charles Grogan, a retired NYPD homicide detective, couldn’t be more different. When they’re paired together to solve the brutal slaying of the academy’s cruel headmaster, Morton Randolph, they must unravel a tangled web of baffling clues and heart-stopping surprises.

Rekha Rao, an Indian American professor of art history, propelled by her sense of duty, dharma, decides to find the killer of her mentor and father figure. She walks a thin line between her match-making family and the homicide detective she is attracted to, but also distrusts. Follow the clues as Rekha searches for the murderer, and in the process, tastes the prospect of an unexpected romance, and discovers her true calling.

There is no detective in fiction as shrewd as Sherlock Holmes. An accomplished violinist, adept at a dozen obscure sciences, and possessed of an acerbic wit, Holmes's adventures with Dr. Watson have delighted readers for more than a century. This collection features some of the most celebrated stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon: "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Crooked Man”, "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", and "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”.

March 4,  1918. An army cook at Fort Riley, Kansas reported to the infirmary with a temperature of 103.1 degrees fahrenheit. Within two days, another 521 men became sick. It is one of the first recorded outbreaks of what came to be known as the Spanish flu. Living in the country, we fared better than those who lived in crowded conditions in the big cities. We were like one big, happy family, living in different houses. We held barn raisings, outdoor festivals, and church picnics. But at last, the plague of 1918 found us too, and that silent killer was about to drag us into hell.

Holmes and Watson's exploits during the Great Hiatus are revealed in a series of short stories and novellas. These adventures include how they separately helped stop the Moriarities from starting a world war and using a legendary stone to destroy London....

Durch ein Missverständnis kursiert im Dorf Palizzolo zunächst das Gerücht, die Cholera sei ausgebrochen. Unter der Bevölkerung bricht Panik aus...

Im Jähzorn soll "Der Pfarrer von Vejlby" seinen Knecht Niels erschlagen haben. Erik Sörensen, Dorfrichter und des Pfarrers Schwiegersohn in spe, muss die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen. Er ist überzeugt von der Unschuld des Angeklagten, doch die Beweislast scheint erdrückend. Ist Pfarrer Quist tatsächlich vom rechten Weg abgekommen? Oder ist alles nur eine Intrige des reichen Großbauern Morten Bruus, der ebenfalls um die Hand der Pfarrerstochter anhielt, jedoch einen Korb bekommen hatte? Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848) war ein dänischer Schriftsteller und evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer.

11 spannende Fälle des weltberühmten Detektivs Sherlock Holmes, die es zu lösen gilt: Sherlock Holmes erzählt seinem Gefährten Dr. Watson unter anderem von einem seiner ersten Fälle rund um ein mysteriöses Ritual auf dem Familiensitz der Musgraves. Außerdem bittet Hopfenhändler Grant Munro um Hilfe: Im Fenster eines leerstehenden Hauses erblickt er ein schreckenerregendes Gesicht... Zu guter Letzt müssen sich Holmes und Watson einem besonders gefährlichen Gegner stellen.