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1. Teil: London steht unter Schock! In der Metropole an der Themse gehören Mord und Verbrechen zum Alltag der Menschen, doch der kaltblütige Mord eines Amerikaners an einer jungen Frau erhitzt die Gemüter. Offensichtlich gibt es keinerlei Zweifel an der Schuld des jungen Mannes. Doch dieser beteuert nach wie vor seine Unschuld und bittet in seiner Verzweiflung Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe. Schon bald offenbaren sich Ungereimtheiten in dem Fall, und Holmes nimmt, entgegen aller Widrigkeiten, den Fall an. Wird es ihm gelingen, den jungen Mr. Harley vor dem Galgen zu bewahren?

The seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including several different English versions, but the twelve volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time have been translated into only three other languages. There have been more than three thousand books written about Proust but less than a dozen written about Powell. This book seeks to compare the two novels and the two novelists, and attempt to explain or at least explore the disparity in their respective receptions."

Steve Brill beschließt, den auf seinem Land befindlichen Grabhügel gegen den ausdrücklichen Rat seines Nachbarn Juan Lopez zu öffnen. Angeblich soll es eine unheimliche Bewandtnis mit dem merkwürdigen Erdhaufen haben. Der Farmer jedoch glaubt nicht an Geister, Flüche und Dämonen und rammt daher beherzt den Spaten in den Boden...

Die miau-tastischen Spiele: Der Tag der Miau-tastischen Spiele ist da. Gabby und ihr Team fordern die „Doodads", die Gewinner des letzten Jahres heraus! Drei spannenden Spiele gilt es zu meistern. Und beide Teams liefern sich ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen. Wer wird in diesem Jahr den begehrten Pokal nach Hause bringen?

Miami is not unique among American cities for having so many homicides. It is unique however, for having so many bizarre and exotic ones. The book describes twenty some homicides which range from the usual crimes of passion and mob hits to robberies gone-wrong and political assassinations.

Miami was never a town, not even a village; it sprang to life out of the tropical wilderness, as a fully formed magical city. London, Paris, and Rome are just three of the world’s cities that are crammed full of history; events, personalities, stories that never fail to fascinate and entertain. But they have had two-thousand years to evolve those stories. Miami is barely one-hundred years old but is already as full of history as any place else on the planet.

Die junge Studentin der Ägyptologie Leonie Förster ist überglücklich, als sie mit ihrer Professorin Bettina Völz die Erstuntersuchung einer echten, ägyptischen Mumie durchführen darf. Dabei erfährt sie schmerzvoll, dass nicht alles, was schon lange tot ist, es auch bleibt. Bei der Untersuchung erweckt Leonie die ca. 3.200 Jahre alte Mumie ungewollt zu schrecklichem neuen Leben und diese begibt sich augenblicklich auf die Jagd nach Lebensenergie.

South Florida is home to a wide range of different communities and life-styles. Inland from all these beaches is the city of Greenhaven; an oasis of genteel respectability and refined sensibilities, holding itself proudly aloof from all its tawdry neighbors. That is, until they found the dead body on the beach.

The Alhambra Golf Course is located in the heart of a genteel South Florida city. Resembling a traditional English village green, it is surrounded by the manicured lawns of magnificent houses and is the pride of the citizens of Greenhaven. But the tranquility of this urban oasis is threatened by a brash and vulgar, billionaire developer with bad hair who wishes the convert Greenhaven’s precious jewel into a towering hotel multiplex onto which he can affix his name in gold letters.

Sid Carter is an American CPA who receives a letter from a stranger in Nigeria offering him a generous percentage if Sid will only help him export his $60 million fortune out of Africa. Acting on a whim, Sid finds himself drawn into a world of intrigue that takes him to Paris, the Sahara desert, Switzerland and finally into the Islamic mosques of Cleveland.

In Havana, Cuba, on the eve of the Revolution, two brothers are swept apart by the unpredictable tides of history which will change, unite and finally destroy them both. Half a century later, returning home after a long boating weekend, Raymond and Margaret Doyle were horrified to discover an alligator in their swimming pool. They were even more upset to find a half digested corpse, also floating in their pool, wearing a pin-stripe, woolen suit in the middle of August.