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Tras la desaparición de su padre en circunstancias poco claras, la señorita Mary Morstan empieza a recibir perlas de alguien cuya identidad desconoce y que le ha citado para reunirse con ella. Mary recurre a Sherlock Holmes, quien acepta desentrañar el caso y, junto con...

Step into the gritty world of late 19th-century Yorkshire and meet Robert Montgomery, a young doctor's assistant and medical student. Montgomery needs £60 to complete his medical degree and fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor. But he has no way of raising the funds with his scanty wage. Fate takes a surprising turn when a violent encounter with a part-time boxer offers a glimmer of hope—the opportunity to enter a boxing match with a tantalizing £100 prize.

A SANDAL FROM EAST ANGLIA. To Sherlock Holmes she will always be The Nun. But is this brilliant young woman carrying on a secret double life - a life far too sensual for a member of a holy order? She is helping archeological excavations at the ruined Abbey of St. Edmund, where a sealed canister has been unearthed. In it is a document that has the potential to change the course of the British Empire and all of Christendom.

When the Librarian is murdered too, Holmes is at a loss at first. But then he finds a book at the crime scene, with contents that could profoundly question Christian faith.

Shortly before the opening of a new ancient Egyptian exhibition at the British Museum, the main attraction disappears: The Pharaoh's Mummy was stolen from its Sarcophagus. The Curator desperately turns to Holmes and Watson and they happily take the case.

Kapitän Peter Carey, wegen seines tyrannischen Wesens auch "Der schwarze Peter" genannt, wird in seiner Hütte ermordet. Eine Harpune ist durch seinen Körper gebohrt und hat ihn an die Wand gespießt. Kaum jemand trauert um ihn. Wer aber hatte Anlass zu dieser grausamen Tat? Ein rätselhaftes Notizbuch und ein Blick in die Vergangenheit bringen Sherlock Holmes auf die richtige Spur.

Die Sicherheit Europas scheint in Gefahr, weil ein wichtiges Staats-Dokument verschwunden ist. Der englische Premierminister sitzt persönlich auf Sherlock Holmes' Sofa, um ihn mit dem Fall zu betrauen. Im Verlauf seiner Ermittlungen stößt Holmes auf einen ermordeten Spion, eine eingeschüchterte Ehefrau und schlussendlich auf den gesuchten Brief.

Der Sohn des reichen und angesehenen Duke of Holdernesse ist aus seinem Internat verschwunden. Obwohl es anfangs Hinweise auf eine freiwillige Flucht gibt, deuten alle neu auftauchenden Spuren auf eine Entführung hin. Als der in derselben Nacht verschwundene Deutschlehrer tot aufgefunden wird, steht Sherlock Holmes vor einem wahrhaft kniffligen Problem.

What happened after Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pardoned Captain Jack Croker for killing Sir Eustace at the Abbey Grange. Have you imagined that he sailed the seven seas for a year and then returned to his beautiful, beloved Mary Fraser? That didn't happen. A year later, murder, treachery, and international intrigue descended on Abbey Grange and, once again, Sherlock Holmes was called upon to bring criminals to justice and assist in the course of true love.

Alan Fenwick steht am Rande eines Nervenzusammenbruchs. Der ehrbare Buchdrucker sucht Holmes und Watson auf, weil er in der Nacht von Jack Skillington, einem ruchlosen Raubmörder, heimgesucht wird. Das wäre eigentlich ein Fall für den Yard, wenn es da nicht ein makabres Detail gäbe... Jack Skillington wurde bereits hingerichtet und sucht den armen Fenwick nun als Geist auf... Mit Christian Rode als Sherlock Holmes und Peter Groeger als Dr. Watson.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887).

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902, which was set before Holmes' "death", Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes, later titled His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes, is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in September 1917 in Strand Magazine, and, amongst six other stories, was collected in an anthology titled His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. The narration is in the third person, instead of the first person narration usually provided by the character of Dr. Watson, and it is a spy story, rather than a detective mystery.

Holmes se depara com um antigo mistério ao ser convocado para visitar uma senhora que se recusa a mostrar o rosto. Um terrível crime cometido há sete anos teve consequências terríveis, e cabe a Holmes salvar a inquilina de rosto coberto de seu próprio remorso.

"Ah, Watson, how good of you to join me. I trust I did not disturb your work at the hospital." "Not at all. We younger doctors are not exactly choc-a-block with patients." "Not yet, my dear chap. Not yet. However, I am very grateful that you are here, and I expect that you will quite enjoy recording my meeting with this fellow."

He was not much more than a child. I estimated his age at fourteen. He was a handsome boy, with the raven-black hair and deeply tanned skin color that marks a person who came from the lands under the Raj. His young body was beginning to show the signs of an emerging well-made sportsman. From his place, lying on his back on the pavement, his dark-brown eyes stared up at the morning sky ... lifeless. Behind his head was a pool of blood, now darkened and congealed.