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Sherlock Holmes' superb deductive abilities are truly tested in this adventure when a client asks the Great Detective to help him discover what is frightening his new wife. What seems to Watson to be just a child's drawing becomes the key to solving the mystery.

Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by a gang of burglars. Sherlock Holmes must solve this complex riddle, which involves abuse, betrayal and possible adultery.

Holmes receives a letter from a Nathan Garrideb asking for help. He is looking for another man with his unusual surname, for it will mean an inheritance for him. He has been approached by another man, John Garrideb who says that he needs to find others with the same last name. Why does Holmes' investigation lead to a tragic shooting?

Covered in grotesque wounds, he staggered toward Holmes, shrieked, "the Lion's Mane", and died on the spot. The seaside was tranquil no longer....

A mutilated woman, a circus strongman and betrayal lead Holmes to solve a mystery that remained up in the air for many years.

Motivated by greed and jealousy, the criminal in this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery aims to kidnap a young lord - but causes a far greater tragedy.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nos deleita con el relato de una investigación de Sherlock Holmes y su amigo Dr. Watson en que incluso se ve involucrado el Almirantazgo Británico. Un crimen en el tren subterráneo y la desaparición de parte de los planos de un submarino, ponen en acción las células grises de Holmes. esto nos lleva por los intrincados caminos de sus deducciones hasta lograr dilucidar el misterio. Un audiolibro que se oye de principio a fin sin detenerse para llegar al final, como siempre, inesperado.

At the request of an old rugby friend of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes finds himself on a hunt for a vampire - or rather, on a mission to prove that vampires are the stuff of Medieval legend, not a part of the modern world. Holmes soon faces a question that truly tests his superb detective abilities: Could a mother harm her own child?

Holmes risks his life with an astounding trick in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone.

After some cajoling on the part of Watson, Sherlock Holmes takes pen in hand to write about one of his investigations. Watson, who at the time had selfishly deserted Holmes to take a wife, has no notes on this particular case, so we're privileged to hear, in the great detective's own words, the accounting of one of his strangest adventures.

Sherlock Holmes, a mas de un siglo de sus primeras apariciones, sigue siendo uno de los mas populares detectives de toda la literatura. Su metodo de deduccion, su sistema de eliminar todo lo imposible para que lo que quede sea lo cierto y su personalidad han logrado que muchos consideren a ese personaje como si fuera real.

When the daughter of General de Merville falls under the spell of a notorious criminal, the strong soldier becomes a broken man. At the request of an anonymous client, Sherlock Holmes intervenes, in what is possibly the supreme triumph of the great detective's career.

A murder has been committed, and the most valuable clue is a gold-rimmed pince-nez (a type of eyeglasses without stems that are secured by pinching the nose) apparently dropped by the killer. Scotland Yard detective Stanley Hopkins returns as Sherlock's foil to contrast the common policeman's take on the mystery with Sherlock's own genius insight into the matter.

Holmes and Watson push the limits of the law when they confront the machinations of a blackmailer whose victims either pay dearly or suffer life-destroying humiliation. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmail artist named Charles Augustus Milverton, a man who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career.

This case, one of the very last handled by Holmes, involves a highly respected professor whose behavior suddenly turns into that of an animal. One Sunday evening Watson receives from Holmes a typically laconic message: "Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same."

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he greatly admires as a mentor, for some help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him besides.

Il racconto della Lega dei Capelli Rossi rappresenta uno dei più originali casi che il grande detective Sherlock Holmes si troverà a dovere risolvere.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed 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".

Motivated by greed and jealousy, the criminal in this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Adventure of the Priory School" aims to kidnap a young lord—but causes a far greater tragedy. This story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes's associate, Dr. Watson, in the popular PBS series Mystery!

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved in this collection by this bloodhound of a genius.