Private Detective Mystery

Nach dem Selbstmord von Hershel Jackson befinden sich Holmes und Watson recht unfreiwillig an Bord der `Lady Jane´ und begeben sich somit auf die Seereise nach Südafrika. Während Holmes die Überfahrt zu gefallen scheint, leidet Holmes an der Seekrankheit und an der damit verbunden Übelkeit. Doch Holmes neue Bekanntschaft Hr. Vogt weiß Abhilfe. Zudem scheint er als Archäologe eine ganz besondere Leidenschaft für die großen Wikinger zu hegen.

Original: The Red-Headed League oder The Adventure of the Red-headed League ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte von Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, die erstmals im August 1891 im Strand Magazine erschien und von Sidney Paget illustriert wurde. Die Geschichte wurde im Oktober 1892 in den Sammelband The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (dt. Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes) aufgenommen. Deutsche Übersetzungen wurden unter verschiedenen Titeln wie beispielsweise Der Bund der Rothaarigen oder Die Liga der Rotschöpfe veröffentlicht.

Ein Skandal in Böhmen (Originaltitel: A Scandal in Bohemia) ist eine Erzählung des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, die erstmals im Juli 1891 im Strand Magazine erschien. Es handelt sich hierbei um die erste Erzählung, die Doyle mit den Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson schrieb. 1887 und 1890 hatten die beiden Romane Eine Studie in Scharlachrot und Das Zeichen der Vier das Fundament für den Hauptkanon der Sherlock-Holmes-Erzählungen gelegt.

Норвудский архитектор один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе. Первая публикация в "Collier's Weekly" в декабре 1903 года. Шерлок Холмс соглашается помочь адвокату Джону Макфарлейну, несправедливо обвиненному в преступлении, которого он не совершал.

El pie del diablo es uno de los 56 relatos sobre Sherlock Holmes. Un buen día acontece algo que la prensa de toda Gran Bretaña denominaría "el espantoso suceso de Cornwall". En la pequeña aldea de Tredannick Wartha aparece el cadáver de la joven Brenda Tregennis junto a sus hermanos Owen y George, que ríen y gritan víctimas de la locura. Todo parece indicar que una diabólica visión ha precedido a la triple desgracia. Holmes se hace cargo de la investigación, pero todo se complica cuando a la mañana siguiente el único sospechoso del suceso, aparece muerto en idénticas circunstancias.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

Произведения Конан Дойля о приключениях Шерлока Холмса и его незаменимого помощника Доктора Ватсона по праву считаются классикой детективного жанра.

Сборник рассказов Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона, написанных знаменитым английским писателем Артуром Конан Дойлем, включает: Внезапное исчезновение "Сильвер-Блэза" ; Мёсгрэвский обряд ; Рейгэтские помещики ; Грек-переводчик ; Морской договор ; Последнее дело ; Арстократ-холостяк ; Берилловая корона ; Усадьба "Под буками" ; Собака Баскервилей ; Приключение шести Наполеонов ; Убийство в Окзотте.

История голубого алмаза — увлекательный рассказ английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла из серии "Приключения Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликовано Strand Magazine в январе 1892 года. Голубой алмаз из шкатулки графини волею судьбы попадает в обитель Шерлока Холмса вместе с рождественским гусем.

...ein verzwickter Fall... Lesung mit musikalischem Feature in neuer Übersetzung. Kriminalroman-Serie von Arthur Conan Doyle um den weltberühmten Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson und deren teils kniffeligen Fälle und Abenteuer. Das Rätsel der Thor-Brücke. Auf den ersten Blick scheint alles klar. Und auf den zweiten? Die Frau eines angesehenen amerikanischen Senators wurde ermordet. Die Indizien scheinen klar zu sein und deuten auf die Gouvernante der Familie hin: Die Tatwaffe findet sich im Kleiderschrank des Kindermädchens.

Linda and Octavia are estranged sisters. The stay-at-home mom and socialite have never had much in common... until now. When they suddenly find themselves husbandless and broke, they reluctantly agree to combine their talents and take on a faltering P.I. agency in a strip mall. Old emotional wounds keep the two at odds and both sisters think they've made a huge mistake. But soon they realize all their clients have secrets... and who better to help them than two women who have secrets of their own?

Twenty-three years ago, Christina Tolmie vanished without trace from northern France, leaving her young daughters Kate and Flora orphaned and alone. Now Flora is also missing. In desperation, Kate searches her Edinburgh house and finds a piece of note paper with just one name: Cal McGill.

In Vera Kelly: Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stake case yet, as Vera quickly puts her private detective skills to good use and tracks a trail of breadcrumbs across southern California to find her missing girlfriend. She travels first to a film set in Santa Ynez and, ultimately, to a most unlikely destination where Vera has to decide how much she is willing to commit to save the woman she loves.

When the body of a radical protestor is found floating in one of Bologna's underground canals, it seems that most of the city is ready to blame the usual suspects: the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester, son-in-law to the former chief of police, receives a call from the dead man's lover, he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day political establishment.

Sherlock Jones, a modern-day hard-boiled detective, is an aging dysfunctional cynic whose major food groups are bourbon, caffeine, nicotine, Vicodin, and bar food. He supplements his army disability check by advertising as a private investigator on Craig’s List, offering divorce tails and missing person traces. At first, when he’s offered a retainer to investigate an actual murder, he sees it as an easy way to pad his meager income, but he quickly realizes reclaiming his own self-worth through the eyes of his client with the sexy European accent is worth much more than $500.

Sister Eve Divine recently discovered she’s got a gift: turns out she’s a natural at private detective work. But is it a temptation or a calling? As Eve wrestles with this question, she’s taking a leave of absence from the convent, investigating a case with her PI father. But something else troubles Eve. It’s been weeks since Eve heard from her sister, Dorisanne. And Eve’s gut tells her that something sinister has happened to her difficult sibling. There’s only one place Eve can find the answers she’s looking for: in Dorisanne’s world, under the lights of Sin City.

Sister Eve, a motorcycle-riding nun with a natural (or is it supernatural?) gift for solving murders returns to the enclave she once called home and quickly finds herself confronting yet another mysterious death. Someone has poisoned Dr. Kelly Middlesworth—a researcher on the life and ministry of 17th-century’s revered “Blue Nun” - and a set of irreplaceable historic documents have disappeared before they could even be examined.

Последнее дело — один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конана Дойля о сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе, включённый писателем в сборник рассказов "Воспоминания Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликован в 1893 году. Легендарный Шерлок Холмс берется за разоблачение самого опасного преступника из всех, с которыми ему доводилось иметь дело —профессора Мориарти. Он готов заплатить любую цену, чтобы избавить общество от этого злодея. Но Холмс еще не знает, что это дело будет стоить ему жизни.

Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over his head in four feet and eleven inches of mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, a deadly assassin (or maybe just a faulty lock on a sauna door), and a secret train car filled with intrigue. Plus there’s a girl involved, which complicates everything.