Private Family

A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. The moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events. Within days, he’s running for his life, pursued by the KGB, the CIA, and his own countrymen. Powerful men plot his destruction and Adam is betrayed and abandoned even by those he holds most dear.

This is the story of Mark Twain's brief career as a Confederate soldier at the beginning of the American Civil War. Mark Twain's "private history" is told from the viewpoint of "someone who set out to do something in the war, but didn't". What starts out as a kind of class reunion/camping trip quickly becomes a series of frightful near misses with a determined and deadly foe, and ends in painful, premature death for some and a lifetime of guilty regrets for others.

Die neunte Tür des Sherlock Holmes-Adventkalenders: Holmes und Watson kommen schließlich in Jerusalem an. Als sie im Haus ihres palästinensischen Kollegen Sallah zu Gast sind, erfahren sie erstaunliche Details über diesen.

"Der Katechismus der Familie Musgrave" ("The Musgrave Ritual") erschien erstmals im Mai 1893 im Strand Magazine und wurde ein Jahr später mit 10 anderen Fällen in Die Memoiren des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Holmes erzählt Watson von einem seiner ersten Aufträge, die er in London als beratender Detektiv annahm: Reginald Musgrave, ein Bekannter aus Sherlocks College-Zeiten, bat ihn damals um Hilfe, da auf seinem Landsitz zwei Menschen spurlos verschwanden.

France was a five-year-old boy who loved to dress and behave as if he was from France. One day, France was at an art festival with his parents in his hometown of Franklin, Tennessee, when he accidentally ended up soaring through the sky alone. Thus, the headlines ran about Private France and his adventure of flying for the first time. His wonder grew as he saw his hometown from high above, and he gained attention from everyone around him.

One of the most popular pieces in the author's Main Travelled Roads collection was "The Return of a Private", a story that certainly rings true today. A soldier returns home only to find that his experiences have changed things forever.