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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The House in the Curve
    Patricia Reed
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    32,31 €

  • The House in the Curve
    Patricia Reed
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    16,07 €

  • 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 €

  • The G-Bomb
    John Russell Fearn
    In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second), here’s the twenty-first Wildside Double:THE G-BOMB: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, by John Russell Fearn. Despite being the cleverest man on Earth, Jonas Glebe becomes the unwitting tool of a baleful intelligence. He hopes that his new invention, the G-Bomb, will bring riches to himself and his daughter ...
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    16,61 €

  • The Man Who Was Not
    John Russell Fearn
    Gerald Dawson was the first to die--in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and the predictions come true, Scotland Yard soon realizes that a serial killer is at work. Baffled, the police call in Dr. Sawley Garson, a specialist in scientific puzzles. But can even he save t...
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    17,76 €

  • Shattering Glass
    John Russell Fearn
    The girl had been lying dead all night. There’d been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle--her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who’d planned to meet the deceased at seven o’clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle...
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    17,68 €

  • The Case of the Russian Chessboard
    Charlie Roixburgh / Charlie Roxburgh
    Late on a foggy November afternoon, a desperate young woman arrives at Baker Street, imploring Sherlock Holmes to help her. She is terrified about what may be going on inside a secretive London refuge for Russian exiles, where her sister works. Thus begins a frightening case which deeply strains both Holmes and Watson because of the dreadful consequences of failure and the myst...
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    12,52 €

  • Sherlock Holmes Vs Jack the Ripper
    Gaston Marot / Louis Pericaud
    Jack the Ripper is one of the most enduring archetypes in criminal fiction. This book presents, for the first time in English, two of the earliest pieces of Ripper fiction ever written in French: Gaston Marot & Louis Péricaud’s stage play Jack the Ripper from 1889, and No. 16 of the French pulp series The Secret Files of the King of Detectives (which later became Harry Dickson)...
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    23,28 €

  • In Search of Doctor Watson a Sherlockian Investigation - 2nd Edition
    Molly Carr
    Fully revised and updated 2nd edition of this detailed biography of Doctor Watson. In her third book author Molly Carr has, for the moment, abandoned the Watson-Fanshaw Detective Agency in favour of discovering as much as possible about Doctor Watson. Radically different in style from her first two books, the investigation will nevertheless be of interest to students of militar...
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    21,13 €

  • Barefoot on Baker Street
    Charlotte Anne Walters
    Barefoot on Baker Street is set in late Victorian London where a life of crime is the only way to escape poverty and servitude for one bright young workhouse orphan. The narrative follows Red on her incredible life-journey as it twists and turns through poverty, riches, infatuation, loss and love. A dramatic escape from the workhouse at thirteen propels Red into a world of sl...
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    24,33 €

  • Playing at Murder
    Michael Patterson
    Detective Chief Inspector Tom Stone was contemplating taking early retirement. His face just didn't fit any more and he was sure he was being deliberately excluded from bigger operations. His health was starting to suffer. His doctor said it was stress-related but he had always thrived on stress - hadn't he? Tom Stone's life was about to change. Soon he would not on...
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    15,33 €

  • A Case of Witchcraft - A Novel of Sherlock Holmes
    Joe Revill
    A tale of witchcraft in the Northern Isles, in which some long-concealed secrets are revealed - concerning not only the Dark Arts but also the Great Detective himself. ...
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    24,70 €

  • The Lone House Mystery and Other Stories
    Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace, author of The Lone House Mystery, was a celebrated British author in the early twentieth century. Over 160 of his novels have been made into films, and he is known especially for his part in writing the story for the movie 'King Kong.' This collection also includes the following short stories: 'Clues,' 'The Sooper Speaking,' and 'Romance In It.' ...
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    20,44 €


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