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  • Death of a Dean
    Hazel Holt
    While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother Francis to sell their jointly owned family home in the seaside village of Taviscombe, the bank will repossess his cottage. Francis,...
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    12,31 €

  • Death of a Dean
    Hazel Holt
    While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother Francis to sell their jointly owned family home in the seaside village of Taviscombe, the bank will repossess his cottage. Francis,...
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    20,60 €

  • Vision Sinister
    John Russell Fearn
    How could two young women, in full possession of their faculties, look through a slide in a door and see a girl being murdered--and yet find the room beyond completely empty when they come to enter it with the police? This is the basis of John Russell Fearn’s astonishing webwork mystery in which he reintroduces the famous backroom physicist and investigator, Dr. Hiram Carruther...
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    17,77 €

  • 2 Detectives
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis / Emmuska Orczy
    This volume of 2 Detectives pairs two early "lady detectives" who showed that intelligence, investigative skills, and courage were not limited to those of the masculine variety. Loveday Brooke's undercover skills allowed her to blend into the background and gather intelligence without tipping off the suspects. She was the consummate professional, much appreciated by her bos...
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    25,70 €

  • Trent’s Last Case - The Woman in Black
    E. C. Bentley / ECBentley
    Trent’s Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any substance that breaks all the rules of the genre: Trent falls in love with one of the primary suspects, and even worse than that, after painstakingly collecting all the evidence, h...
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    19,22 €

  • Superfluous Death
    Hazel Holt
    The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judging character and unmasking murderers is as impressive as her knowledge of nineteenth-century literature. Mrs. Malory’s sleuthing talents are tested once again when she comes upon the body of one of her friends, a sweet elderly lady. ...
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    12,36 €

  • Robbery Without Violence
    John Russell Fearn
    In 'Robbery Without Violence,' gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under mysterious circumstances, Hargraves is again spurred to seek outside help from scientist Sawley Garson, a specialist in solving 'impossible' c...
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    17,73 €

  • Exit Stage Left
    Adam Croft
    Charlie Sparks brought a whole new meaning to dying on stage...Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrapheap.When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death.As Hardwick begins to unravel t...
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    11,22 €

  • Mark of the Baskerville Hound
    Wilfred Huettel
    A New York police officer, who is on a speaking engagement in Britain finds time to visit the Dartmoor environs. As a nuts and bolts detective events occur on the moors that test his sanity and reason. What are the reasons for a sudden rash of maulings and horror? He returns to New York only to ask help form a priest and a doctor. Finally, he alone must return to the woman he m...
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    25,04 €

  • My Dear Watson
    Margaret Park Bridges
    The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light-he was actually a woman! The master-or rather, mistress-of disguise finally puts pen to paper to reveal this decades-long deception and, in so doing, discovers another fact she kept secret even from herself. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public, in the chronicle of ...
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    23,71 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd Edition
    David Ruffle
    The year is 1896. Doctor Watson is invited to the Dorsetshire coast by an old friend. To Watson’s surprise he manages to persuade his good friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes to accompany him. This hitherto unknown tale of Watson’s involves romancing, dancing, occasional glasses of cider, but the holiday turns into a nightmare as the two old friends encounter an unimaginable evil which ...
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    24,82 €

  • An Entirely New Country - Arthur Conan Doyle, Undershaw and the Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes
    Alistair Duncan
    The late 1890s saw Arthur Conan Doyle return to England after several years abroad. His new house, named Undershaw, represented a fresh start but it was also the beginning of a dramatic decade that saw him fall in love, stand for parliament, fight injustice and be awarded a knighthood. However, for his many admirers, the most important event of that decade was the resurrection ...
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    24,61 €

  • His Last Bow
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The most significant thing about Doyle’s London was that it was inhabited by Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, who seem more real to us than most historical figures. They’ve managed to convince any number of people of their reality. Presumably the British post office no longer receives letters address to Sherlock Holmes from all over the world, but once upon a time, it receive...
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    11,79 €

  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Under pressure from the reading public Arthur Conan Doyle brought his famous detective back from the dead in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. We learn that Holmes actually faked his own death in order to avoid being killed by one of his many enemies. Thirteen classic mysteries follow this admission. ...
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    14,63 €

  • Murder on Campus
    Hazel Holt
    A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in America. The semester will prove even more challenging than she thought, for no sooner does she arrive than a colleague is fou...
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    12,39 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels
    Kieran McMullen
    It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called to London by Mycroft Holmes and is asked to join Sherlock, who has infiltrated the Irish Volunteers. War within the United Kingdom could deal a decisive blow to the war effort and Ho...
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    23,49 €

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Sherlock Holmes Short Story Collection-1 **** The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. ...
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    12,00 €

  • The Valley of Fear
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    In the Valley of Fear Sherlock Holmes once again matches wits with the most brilliant criminal mastermind of all time, Professor James Moriarty. Holmes and Watson receive a coded message that leads them to a murder in a castle and an adventure that will range half way around the world. ...
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    9,90 €

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Here is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s best known Sherlock Holmes novel. Holmes is persuaded to investigate the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Is the death supernatural, is there really a family curse hunting Baskerville’s down through the ages, or is it something more earthly. Only Holmes’ and his faithful sidekick, Watson, can find the answer to this mystery. ...
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    11,87 €

  • Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle felt that the Sherlock Holmes stories were taking time and public attention away from his more serious work. So, with great deliberation he killed off his detective in the 24th story in the series, the ominously entitled 'The Final Problem,' sending both Holmes and his arch-nemesis created for the occasion, the 'Napoleon of Crime,' Dr. Moriarty, over the Reichenbach Fall...
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    14,87 €

  • A Study in Scarlet
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle, unsuccessful in his medical practice, in need of money and a more satisfying career, had already sold a number of magazine stories when he wrote the novella, 'A Study in Scarlet,' the first Sherlock Holmes story, which, after many rejections, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. Doyle got twenty-five pounds for all rights to the story. He never received a...
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    10,03 €

  • The Sign of the Four
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Sign of the Four is the second Sherlock Holmes book. Its complex plot involves service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. It presents Sherlock Holmes’ drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor W...
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    8,62 €

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare’s characters are nearly that well known, probably Hamlet and McBeth. Other possible rivals include Robinson Crusoe, Dracula, Tarzan, and James ...
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    14,72 €

  • The Punishment of Sherlock Holmes
    Bob Burr / Philip K. Jones / Philip KJones
    A collection of hundreds of Sherlock Holmes puns amassed over decades and stolen from a host of sources. The wordplay may be familiar, but the settings and characters are all original to the sources cited. The puns that have made it into the book are all Sherlockian narratives. Each is a tale describing events featuring Holmes characters, not simply a comment or an observati...
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    23,36 €

  • I Will Find the Answer
    Kate Workman
    Erik has returned and has brought an interesting character to Holmes’s attention: Dr. Henry Jekyll. It appears Jekyll is experimenting on an unsanctioned patient in an effort to prove his theories concerning human nature correct. But who is the patient he’s found? Is it his mentally ill father, shut away for years in an institution? Is it Simon Stride, the jealous former suitor...
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    21,29 €

  • The Great Book of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Mark Twain
    Sherlock Holmes, the LegendSherlock Holmes was Arthur Conan Doyle’s miracle. Like many miracles, it came of its own accord and rather overwhelmed its recipient. There may have been times when St. Paul, after his experience on the road to Damascus, really wished he could go back to his old life, but he couldn’t, and he knew it. Conan Doyle, too, reluctantly came to the same conc...
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    55,14 €

  • The Great Book of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Mark Twain
    Sherlock Holmes was Arthur Conan Doyle’s miracle. Like many miracles, it came of its own accord and rather overwhelmed its recipient. There may have been times when St. Paul, after his experience on the road to Damascus, really wished he could go back to his old life, but he couldn’t, and he knew it. Conan Doyle, too, reluctantly came to the same conclusion, though only after a...
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    62,20 €

  • Shadowblood - A Novel of Sherlock Holmes
    Tracy Revels
    A sequel to Shadowfall, this novel continues the adventures of Holmes as a man of two worlds, gifted with both deductive and magical powers.The convalescing Watson’s country holiday is brought to an abrupt end when an eccentric recluse named Edgar Telfair demands that Holmes investigate his daughter’s disappearance. Holmes’s refusal to take the case is followed by Telfair’s su...
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    24,75 €

  • One Way Out
    John Russell Fearn / Philip Harbottle
    On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he’s recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale had spurned her romantic advances. Now, Janice wants her revenge. Returning to their carriage, Lee finds Dale alone with the dead bod...
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    17,76 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania
    Gerry O'Hara / Gerry O’Hara
    Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson are returning to London from Bucharest after the great detective has interceded in a delicate matter relating to the Rumanian Royal House. As they depart from Bucharest they receive their mail forwarded from London. Doctor Watson opens a distressing letter from his niece, Mina, now living in Budapest with her young husband, Janos, a newly ...
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    21,02 €


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