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Es fing ganz harmlos an, mit einem Strandspaziergang in Biarritz - dann führte die Spur zum französischen Finanzminister und schließlich zum finsteren Spukschloss Urganza in den Pyrenäen. Van Dusen löst den Fall brillant, auch wenn er schließlich das Phantom entkommen lassen muss.

Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë, and the seed of her later books, Jane Eyre and Villette. The narrator of the tale, William Crimsworth, tells a story of courage and ambition among jealousy and envy: Orphaned from a young age, William rejects life in the clergy, and then as a tradesman, to the chagrin of his cruel uncles and elder brother. Instead he pursues a career in education and ends up in Brussels where he meets student/teacher Francis Evans Henri, with whom he falls in love.

The Professor, the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed, is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator she created, the work questions many of the presuppositions of Victorian society.

Stanford University Professor Dumont formulates a theory as to who really discovered America years before Columbus. He convinces the university to sponsor an expedition to Baja Mexico to a site he believes holds the answers to his theory. The story contains many twists and turns. The team members are amazed at the interest they receive from many government agencies. Several things impede the team's progress, some expected, such as the corrupt local officials they encounter, and some totally surprising, all building up to the explosive conclusion.

An explorer at heart, former university professor Phillip Singleton's adventures have only taken place in his imagination - until recently. Exploring the Cornish coast to research a travel book, he encounters a living example of a pirate archetype. Dark-haired, black-bearded Carne Treleaven might have been hewn from the very rock his name describes, and Phillip is eager to discover more. As personalities clash, secrets unfold, and riches are revealed, the two polar opposites find the point where their similarities lay.

Am einsamen Strand der Nordseeinsel werden PDDDAVD und sein treuer Assistent und Chronist Hutchinson Hatch von einer strengen Dame in Schwarz gekidnappt und im Meer ausgesetzt. Unversehens sind die beiden in eine politische Intrige von höchster Brisanz verwickelt. Bis heute ist sie ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis geblieben, die sensationelle Affäre um den deutschen Kaiser Wilhelm II., die sich im Jahre 1904 auf der ostfriesischen Insel Norderney zugetragen hat.

Im botanischen Garten von Singapur geht ein mörderischer Kopfjäger um - so hat es jedenfalls den Anschein, bis Prof. van Dusen sich auf der Durchreise des Falles annimmt. Durch seine kriminalistischen Fähigkeiten, vor allem auf dem Gebiet der Daktyloskopie, überführt er den wahren Mörder und enthüllt die sensationellen Hintergründe.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive.

Während der Zugfahrt durchs deutsche Kaiserreich erinnert sich Hutchinson Hatch, wie Professor van Dusen und er sich vor fünf Jahren kennenlernten, wie der große Wissenschaftler den Beinamen "Die Denkmaschine" bekam und wie er seinen ersten Kriminalfall löste, an dem die New Yorker Kriminalpolizei in Gestalt von Detective Sergeant Caruso sich vergeblich die Zähne ausbiss. Das, denkt Hatch gerührt, wurde der Beginn einer wunderbaren Freundschaft.

Meet the Thompsons of Locust Street, an unconventional family taking Philadelphia high society by storm…1870 Kirsty Thompson is determined to begin her own business bringing beloved Scottish fabrics and yarns to Philadelphia but first she must meet the men and women who weave the plaids and spin the wool. How will she ever escape her protective older siblings and sail to Scotland?

Appalled by the news her father gives her, Professor Cassell's daughter, who had lived very happily with her widowed father in war-torn 1950's London, knows she has to get as far away from him and London as she possibly can. She applies and is accepted for a job at a boarding school in Cornwall. But all is not what it seems in this remote institution.

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859. He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The local theatres were not interested in his works, and it was only after one was stolen and presented as being by someone else that his stock rose at all. Most of his output was detective stories, thrillers and mysteries.

Ace is apparently killed and her dead Nan appears to help her cross over to "the other side". Faced with her own internal demons, how long can she cling to life? And what is "the other side"? The final track of this download is a 10-minute edition discussion with Bill Baggs and Sophie Aldred, Editor Alistair Lock, and Assistant Producer John Ainsworth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is obsessed with a legendary red book. Its peculiar stories have come to life, and rumors claim that it has rewritten its own endings. Convinced that possessing this book will help him write his ever-popular Sherlock Holmes stories, he takes on an unlikely partner, John Patrick Scott, known to most as a concert pianist, but a paranormal investigator and a time traveler professor to a select few.