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Während Dr. Watson beschließt, am späten Abend die Nachtruhe einzuläuten, begeben sich Holmes und Alice ins Hotel Amerika. Dort findet eine musikalische Abendveranstaltung statt. Alice hat bald einen angenehmen Gesprächspartner gefunden, einen gewissen Thomas Münner, und Holmes unterhält sich angeregt mit einer ihm unbekannten Dame. Doch dann ist Holmes plötzlich von einer Sekunde auf die andere nicht mehr Herr seiner Sinne. Am nächsten Morgen wird er halb tot in einem Strandkorb gefunden.

In Shelbys Zirkus, der gerade in London gastiert, findet ein Raubtierdompteur auf grausame Weise den Tod - sein eigener Schützling, ein Weißer Tiger, reißt ihn in Stücke. Bloß ein schrecklicher Unfall oder steckt mehr dahinter? Sherlock Holmes: Der Tierbändiger (Neues aus der Baker Street, Folge 12) - Holmes und Watson ermitteln, bis eine Spur schließlich in weite Ferne führt.

Beim Diebstahl einer wertvollen Reliquie verweisen die Indizien auf niemand anderen als Holmes selbst. Ist der geniale Detektiv womöglich dem Wahnsinn verfallen? Holmes erhofft sich Hilfe von einem jungen Wiener Arzt und bekommt sie - wenn auch auf andere Weise als gedacht...

Ein bereits vor Monaten Verstorbener dringt in ein angesehenes Londoner Anwesen ein - dessen Hausherr wird daraufhin tot aufgefunden. Eine Geistergeschichte und damit Stoff für die Klatschpresse oder doch ein Fall für Sherlock Holmes? Könnte es sich beim Tod des Verdächtigen um einen Irrtum handeln? Holmes, Watson und Adler ermitteln, aber alle Spuren verlaufen zunächst im Sande...

Ein rumänischer Adliger, der das Sonnenlicht meidet und junge Frauen, die über Nacht verschwinden - und anderntags mit kleinen Wunden am Hals wieder auftauchen... Stoff für eine waschechte Vampirgeschichte, oder etwa nicht? Grund genug jedenfalls für Holmes und seine Entourage, zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise nach Siebenbürgen aufzubrechen. Werden sie klären können, was wirklich hinter der ganzen Sache steckt?

Kurz nach dem Tod des berühmten sozialistischen Theoretikers Karl Marx tritt dessen Nachlassverwalter Friedrich Engels an Sherlock Holmes heran und bittet ihn um Hilfe. Während die internationalen Gäste zum Begräbnis nach London anreisen, ereignen sich mysteriöse Vorgänge, die in einem Showdown am Friedhof gipfeln.

Comedy, mystery, classic horror, children's stories, adventure and more! The range of titles available in the complete fourth season of The Classic Tales Podcast is unparalleled! It contains 29 audiobooks, including two complete novels and three newly recorded stories. It's over 39 hours long!

Abandon yourself to the spell of six short stories filled with thrills and dark suspense. Here are tales by the masters of mystery and horror - A. Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce - taking on a new energy and force through performances by Recorded Books’ critically-acclaimed narrators. Ranging from dungeons to drawing rooms, and peopled with extraordinary ghouls and doomed dowagers, the tales are guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck.

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".

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The best of the Holmes novels!

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 last six stories written by Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the duo face some of their most challenging cases. In "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", Holmes puts his own life in danger as he tries to cut short a young girl’s infatuation with the notorious wife-murderer Baron Gruner. Why is Mrs. Maberley offered a handsome price for the Three Gables, provided she leaves at once and takes nothing with her?

In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

These six cases are among the last undertaken by Sherlock Holmes before he retired to the Sussex downs. However, the problems facing the sleuth are as diverse and challenging as ever. What with seeking the whereabouts of the stolen Mazarin Diamond, discovering the importance of being called Garrideb, encountering a mysterious murder on Thor Bridge, searching for eternal youth and the threat of a vampire in Sussex, there is no sign of Holmes' deductive powers slowing down.

Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip: an Indian pot stands in the shadows of a Colonel's death; serious affairs of state and international diplomacy are threatened by a theft; and surely evil intent lies behind threats in a hidden house. The cool observations and swift action of Mr. Sherlock Holmes resolves all.

A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.

This audiobook includes the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, all read by the award-winning Jonathan Keeble.

The History of Spiritualism – Arthur Conan Doyle. This vintage work contains a comprehensive treatise on the history of spiritualism, being a narrative which covers in a way the whole history of the Spiritualistic movement.

The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher. When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at work. But there is much more to this tale of murder than meets the eye.

Every great hero has an origin story and for the legendary Sherlock Holmes, it was A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel which introduced the world's leading (and only) consulting detective to the reading public. Though not an immediate sensation (the novel was received with moderate acclaim), it has gone on to become one of the most revered detective novels in history and its protagonists—Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes—are easily the most recognized and celebrated crime fighting duo in all of literature.