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Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden beim Fund einer Wasserleiche beratend hinzugezogen. Rasch kann Holmes anhand der körperlichen Auffälligkeiten über die Lebensumstände der Frau schließen. Auch über die sonderlichen Verletzungen, die das Opfer am Rücken aufweist, kann Holmes schnell auf die eigenwillige Tatwaffe schlussfolgern.

Dem inzwischen im Ruhestand stehenden Sherlock Holmes werden von Dr. Watson höchst brisante Nachrichten heran getragen. In den Kinos liefe ein neuer Detektivfilm mit überaus anrüchigem Inhalt. Die Hauptfigur sollte niemand anderem als Sherlock Holmes selbst darstellen. Dr. Watson ist um den guten Ruf des Meisterdetektives in großer Sorge. Doch auch Dr. Watsons guter Ruf steht auf dem Spiel, wie auch die Ehe mit seiner geliebten Mary.

From the Ether to the Quantum Field is an essay in which I retrace the scientific development of the notion of the ether, as it dominated 19th century science, to the notion of the quantum field that is the final answer of modern science to the cosmic energy field as well as the human biofield that various researchers have detected and described, and that they all termed differently. Because of the terminological confusion, it was not obvious that all those researchers, from Carl Jung to Harold Saxton Burr, were actually talking about one and the same thing.

Basics of Feng Shui: The Art and Science of Sensing the Energies is an introduction into a perennial science that originated from the ancient Chinese practice of arrangement of space, which is claimed to achieve harmony with the environment. There is scientific evidence now that feng shui is effective and not just a belief system, as astrology is not a belief system. Feng shui is a science of the bioenergy and perhaps the oldest distillation of this holistic knowledge.

The Roots of Violence: Why Humans Are Not by Nature Violent (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 2018) is an analytical and policy study that presents abundant evidence that human beings are not by nature violent and that violence therefore is a conditioned response. The scientific disciplines examined are anthropology, biology, neurology, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Edward de Bono and the Mechanism of Mind is a study that features one of the greatest think tanks of our time. Born in 1933 in Malta, he has been a training expert, corporate consultant, writer, and philosopher of world renown for decades. He has been a corporate consultant for DuPont, Exxon, Shell, Ford, IBM, British Airways, Ciba-Geigy, Citibank - to name a few. Unlike many other corporate training experts, Dr. de Bono went way beyond the job of a corporate trainer, and is to be considered a true business philosopher and conceptualist. His research on perception and the memory matrix of the human brain has had a decisive impact upon accelerated learning. Dr. de Bono is the creator of many creativity-boosting games and training programs, among them the concept of "lateral thinking" and the "Six Thinking Hats" brainstorming technique. In various countries, governments use his techniques in primary schools and high schools for boosting the creativity and learning skills of their students.

Joseph Murphy and the Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Great Minds Series, Volume 6, 2017 Revised, Updated, and Reformatted Edition, is a study that features one of the greatest self-help authors of our time. Joseph Murphy (1898-1981), born in Ireland, was a naturalized American author and New Thought minister, ordained in divine science and religious science. He was born into a strictly Catholic schoolmaster family and was accepted as a Jesuit seminarian. However, by the time he reached his late teen years, he began to question the orthodoxy of the Jesuits and withdrew from the seminary, leaving his family for going to America, where he started a modest career as a pharmacist.

Vier Geschichten aus Dr. Watsons unerschöpflicher Nachlasssammlung zeigen Sherlock Holmes in Bestform. Eine nackte Tote aus der Themse offenbart Holmes bis auf ihren Namen alles über sich und ihren Mörder. Der versteht sich meisterhaft auf die Handhabung einer seltenen indischen Spezialwaffe. Auf der Suche nach einem verschwundenen Fabergé-Ei stellt der Meisterdetektiv Blenheim Castle, die weltberühmte Nobelimmobilie des Duke of Marlborough, komplett auf den Kopf. Zwei Leben stehen auf dem Spiel.

Die junge Miss Buckley sucht den Meisterdetektiv auf. Sie bittet ihn, nach einem Mann zu suchen, mit dem sie vor Kurzem eine heftige Liebesaffäre gehabt hatte. Nach dieser verschwand er spurlos. Ist ihm etwas zugestoßen? Und welche Rolle spielen ihr Bruder Marmaduke und die seltsamen Gemälde ihres verstorbenden Vaters?

Ein spannendes Hörspiel von Peter Folken nach dem Roman von Walter Scott.