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Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.

Ian McKellen was the winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Best Actor in an Audio Drama (for Eugenie Grandet). Sir Ian McKellen reads The Valley of Fear, the last of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels. The mystery begins with a coded warning of imminent danger, drawing the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson to a secluded English country home.

Ein Mann mit einer blutig umwickelten Hand schleppt sich am Ende seiner Kräfte in Dr. Watsons Praxis - Victor Hatherley, Ingenieur für Hydraulik...

Nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem südafrikanischen Burenkrieg wendet sich James M. Dodd hilfesuchend an Sherlock Holmes...

Der junge Sekretär von Professor Coram, Mr. Willoughby Smith, wurde erstochen. Die Suche nach einem Motiv für den Mord bleibt erfolglos...

Susan Cushing, eine ehrbare Dame um die Fünfzig, bekommt ein abscheuliches Paket. Es enthält zwei menschliche Ohren, eins von einem Mann und eins von einer Frau...

This thrilling anthology contains five action-packed tales of incredible journeys, a murderous treasure hunt, invaders from outer space and international espionage - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors.

Dr. Watson kann es kaum glauben: Sherlock Holmes, den alle für tot gehalten haben, steht plötzlich leibhaftig bei ihm im Zimmer...

Very odd happenings cause a hydraulic engineer to lose his thumb - and lead Holmes and Watson to a band of criminals.

With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.

These delightful stories of the famous hawk-eyed detective are told by his friend and foil, Dr. Watson. Doyle draws us into 19th-century London - - hansom cabs, train rides, and foggy nights - - where he astutely solves the most complex and perplexing cases of the day. Among the short stories included in this collection is "The Gloria Scott", an account of Holmes's very first case.

Le rituel Musgrave se présente sous la forme d'une feuille sur laquelle on peut lire : "À qui appartenait-elle ? À celui qui est parti. Qui l'aura ? Celui qui viendra. Quel était le mois ? Le sixième à partir du premier. Où était le soleil ? Au-dessus du chêne. Où était l'ombre? Sous l'orme."

"Le mariage de Lord St. Simon et sa curieuse conclusion ont cessé longtemps d'être un sujet de conversation dans les milieux éminents que fréquente l'infortuné jeune marié. Des scandales neufs ont éclipsé celui-ci, et leurs détails plus piquants ont relégué aux oubliettes ce drame vieux de quatre ans."

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary vampire archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many, many, more...Featuring: Bloody fangs, dark and foreboding crypts, mysterious nighttime apparitions, and languid ladies.

Este libro es una explosiva mezcla de crimen, suspense, pistas falsas y venganzas, donde los archifamosos Sherlock Holmes, doctor Watson e inspector Lestrade unirán sus fuerzas por vez primera para seguir el rastro de un misterioso asesino en las calles de Londres.

"Monsieur Mycroft Holmes a la douleur de vous faire part de la disparition de son frère Sherlock Holmes. La famille remercie de tout coeur le docteur John Watson, ainsi que toutes les personnes qui par leur présence, leurs pensées ou leurs prières s'associeront à son deuil." Sherlock Holmes ne serait qu'un imposteur ! Un adepte de la drogue ! Les journaux londoniens abondent de lettres qui insultent la mémoire du célèbre détective. Pour le docteur Watson, c'en est trop. Il se décide enfin à raconter la véritable histoire de la mort de Sherlock Holmes.

The Land of Mist is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926. Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and her colleague. Heavily influenced by Doyle’s growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone’s at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism.

Sometimes called the greatest detective story ever written, The Hound of the Baskervilles, set on wild and desolate Dartmoor, with its menacing Tors, treacherous mires, and enveloping mists, pits the supernatural in the form of a spectral Hound against the rational mind of Sherlock Holmes, who with his companion Dr. Watson, attempts to solve the savage murder of the local squire, and save his successor from the curse of the Baskervilles.

The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads us through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and biographer Dr. Watson to investigate the mystery of a beast terrorizing the neighborhood.

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.