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Seul le Pr Challenger est capable de trouver la réponse à la menace que fait peser sur l'humanité l'existence d'une telle machine...

This full-cast audio movie invites you to travel with Professor Challenger to a secluded South American plateau...deep in the Amazon jungle...where no civilized man dares to go...and where dinosaurs still roam! This is the original terrifying adventure tale, as spawned by the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the man who gave the world Sherlock Holmes.

Includes "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Redheaded League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often.

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror.

The sequel to The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle's Poison Belt reunites the ever-popular Professor Challenger, intrepid journalist Edward Malone, dashing Lord John Roxton and the querulous Professor Summerlee for yet another adventure. When a sinister poison envelops the earth, the entire human race teeters on the brink of destruction, forcing the comrades to implement a desperate plan for survival.

Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings.

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished 10 years before. Four years later, she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision.

In the first of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. John Watson, discharged from military service after suffering severe wounds, is at a loose end until a chance encounter leads him to take rooms with a remarkable young man. The arrogant, irascible Sherlock Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician, and an expert on all aspects of crime.

In "The Red-Headed League", the legendary Sherlock Holmes catches one of London's most daring criminals while investigating the strange business of the League, a suspicious organization that gives its members money for "nominal work".

Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered and his son James is implicated. Will Sherlock find the real Killer?

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani Liga roşcaţilor caută un nou membru care să îndeplinească sarcini minore. Plata pentru acest post este de PATRU LIRE pe săptămână. Toţi roşcaţii sănătoşi şi cu vârsta peste douăzeci şi unu de ani vor fi luaţi în considerare. După ce postul foarte bine plătit al lui Jabez Wilson dispare fără urmă, acesta îl roagă pe Holmes să deslușească misterul.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani În vreme ce poliția se străduiește să dea de urma rubinului furat, Holmes încearcă să organizeze o cină de Crăciun. Însă atunci când piatra prețioasă este găsită, Holmes și Watson se avântă într-o cursă contra cronometru pentru a salva viața unui om nevinovat. Această adaptare realizată de Stephanie Baudet a poveștii originale scrise de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, și superb ilustrată de Arianna Bellucci, te va încânta și te va purta în lumea fantastică a misterelor și a suspansului.

Als die Londoner Polizei eine Leiche aus der Themse zieht, sind Identität und Hintergründe zunächst unklar. Sherlock Holmes findet jedoch einen Zusammenhang mit einer überaus prominenten Baustelle flussaufwärts.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani "Vino la cel de-al treilea stâlp din curtea Teatrului Lyceum la ora 7:00, în seara asta. Eşti o femeie nedreptăţită şi trebuie să ţi se facă DREPTATE. Nu veni cu poliţie, căci altfel totul va fi în van." Când domnișoara Morstan îl roagă pe Sherlock Holmes să arunce o privire peste mesajul criptic primit de ea, nici detectivul, nici prietenul său, doctorul Watson, nu se așteaptă să fie atrași în vârtejul unei trădări vechi de zeci de ani.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Vârstă recomandată: 8-14 ani. "Trupul lui E.J. Drebber – descoperit noaptea trecută într-o casă din Londra. Nicio cauză evidentă a morții. Sângele de la locul faptei pare să fie al unei alte persoane. Adresa găsită e Cleveland, Ohio, SUA. Orice informaţie apreciată." Când o crimă misterioasă îi pune în încurcătură pe polițiștii de la Scotland Yard, cel mai iscusit detectiv amator al lumii este rugat să intervină. Alături de colegul său de apartament, Dr.

"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!" With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knights ride into battle, accompanied by the stalwart archers known as the White Company. Fueled by their appetite for glory, this motley crew of freebooters stands united in their unswerving devotion to the company commander, Sir Nigel Loring. Short, bald, and extremely nearsighted, Sir Nigel's unprepossessing appearance belies his warrior's heart and his chivalrous nature.