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In The Valley of Fear, the great detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful friend Dr. Watson arrive to find they are too late---Douglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling card left by his side. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes, detecting the diabolical workings of his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, has some ideas of his own.

Tras una majestuosa boda, la novia desaparece durante la recepción. El adinerado Lord Simon, su nuevo esposo, no tiene la más mínima idea si su nueva esposa se encuentra viva, secuestrada o si a escapado con otro hombre a sus espaldas. La ansiedad y los nervios de perderla influirán para que Simon, desesperadamente y con el corazón en la mano, solicite la ayuda de Sherlock Holmes y su fiel compañero Watson. Se supone que una boda es un momento sumamente importante de la vida. ¿Qué habrá salido mal? ¿Qué afectó en la ceremonia para que la novia desapareciera?

In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.

The Victorians were obsessed with Egyptology and mummies. It was during the second half of the 19th century that many of the most significant archeological finds were made in Egypt, and stories of the revenge of the mummies on anyone raiding their tombs, stealing their treasures or unwrapping their corpses abounded. This collection brings together the best and scariest short stories of the period, featuring vengeance-seeking mummies, bandaged zombies, pharaonic ghosts and ancient curses.

Great Horror Stories is a vintage collection of some of the finest ghost tales, horror stories, and supernatural legends ever written, by the best writers the genre has to offer.

"You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend." When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl. Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong.

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the 12 stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget.

London 1930. Sherlock Holmes, inzwischen 76 Jahre alt, lebt vereinsamt in der Bakerstraße. Vieles in seinem Leben hat sich verändert. Die gute, alte Mrs. Hudson ist leider längst verstorben. Ihre Nachfolgerin wird ihre Nichte Alice Miller. Zusammen mit ihrem Mann Eddy versäumt sie es jedoch nicht, ein Auge auf Holmes zu haben und unterstützt ihn in jeglichem Belang. So liegt es fast auf der Hand, dass Alice Miller sogar in das eine oder andere Abenteuer mit hineingezogen wird, und mit ihrer kühnen aber herzlichen Art ist sie am Ende am Erfolg des Geschehens nicht ganz unbeteiligt.

London 1930. Sherlock Holmes, inzwischen 76 Jahre alt, lebt vereinsamt in der Bakerstraße. Doch als nach so vielen Jahren der Rippermorde in London wieder brutale Frauenmorde geschehen, kann auf Holmes' Empfindlichkeiten keine Rücksicht genommen werden. Holmes beginnt also wieder aktiv als Detektiv zu arbeiten. Es gilt, einen gestohlenen Familienschatz zu finden und wiederzubeschaffen.

Dr. Watson wird unerwarteter Weise von seiner Cousine Aethel Gastrell um Hilfe gebeten. Holmes und Watson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und landen noch am selben Tag in Godrics Lieblingskneipe bei seinem besten Freund Berry. Als Holmes und Watson schließlich von Barbara Chadburn die Lebensgeschichte der Gastrells erfahren, ist für Holmes sofort klar, wer für die Morde verantwortlich ist.

Sherlock Holmes und sein guter Freund und langjähriger Mitbewohner, Dr. John Watson, bilden ein unzertrennliches Ermittlerpaar - bis Watson im Zuge des Falles "Im Zeichen der Vier" Miss Mary Morstan kennenlernt, sich in sie verliebt und sie schließlich heiratet. Doch Watsons brennende Neugier auf Sherlock Holmes' Fälle treibt ihn immer wieder zurück in die Baker Street - so dass Holmes und er auch in dieser Zeit noch so manches gemeinsame Abenteuer erleben.

Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. Viele dieser Berichte wurden veröffentlicht und sind einer breiten Leserschaft hinlänglich bekannt. Doch bei manchen Fällen sah Watson zeitlebens davon ab, seine Aufzeichnungen zu publizieren.

In October 1916, Conan Doyle announced in the journal light his conversion to spiritualism. During the last years of his life, he became the crusader of this movement that preaches salvation of humanity through science. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures about spiritualism in Australia, in USA, and in Canada. He published his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, in 1924 and opened a bookstore dedicated to spiritualism, The Psychic Bookshop in London, where he handled the editing of his own works.

The address of 221-B Baker Street in London became almost as well known as the mental marvel who lived there. That, of course, was the remarkable genius Sherlock Holmes. This is the final collection of a half dozen adventures by the intrepid detective and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, as they examine and solve six cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police, and provide listeners with the thrill of the chase.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 detective The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.

This is the second novella detailing the continuing adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, and his friend and colleague, Dr. John Watson. In The Sign of Four, Holmes and Watson are hired by Mary Morstan to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her father's death, which will set them on the trail of a lost Indian treasure and in pursuit of two of the strangest criminals in the Holmes canon.

A truly enjoyable and growing collection of Sherlock Holmes Adventures and the best stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of Britain's greatest storytellers. Narration by master storyteller Jon Hagadorn (1001 Stories Network).

'You will conceive a bunch of grapes,' said he, 'which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus. The gardener passes it through a disinfecting medium. It may be that he desires his grapes to be cleaner. It may be that he needs space to breed some fresh bacillus less noxious than the last.'

This is a story from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Volume II collection.

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.