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- „The Valley of Fear” is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes receives a message from Fred Porlock, an agent to Professor Moriarty. Moriarty is blameless in the eyes of the law but Holmes knows him to be „the controlling brain of the underworld.” Together Holmes and Watson decipher Porlock’s message as indicating that a man named John Douglas residing...
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- „The Valley of Fear” is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes receives a message from Fred Porlock, an agent to Professor Moriarty. Moriarty is blameless in the eyes of the law but Holmes knows him to be „the controlling brain of the underworld.” Together Holmes and Watson decipher Porlock’s message as indicating that a man named John Douglas residing...
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- A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and with more than one ghost and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman... „The Valley of Ghosts”, written as one of four detective novels in 1922, is set in the seemingly peaceful community Beverly Green, a place where upper-middle-class families live a secluded life. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the...
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- The Fort Edward Hotel, better known as the Maroney’s Hotel, looked in the middle of the streets like a packing box among soap dishes. Other habitats stretched out on both sides of the wrong double row. At eleven in the morning there were few humans in sight, because the black? ies were in murderous fettle, and anyway, the principal industry of the place was waiting for the railway. Strange things happen...
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- W 1884 r. Abercrombie Smith, sportowiec i student medycyny na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim, zostaje wezwany do pokoi swojego sąsiada i kolegi Edwarda Bellinghama. Bellingham, fanatycznego student egiptologii, który posiada wiele starożytnych egipskich artefaktów, który zemdlał z powodu szoku. Kiedy Smith wykorzystuje swoje umiejętności medyczne, aby ożywić Bellinghama, przyjaciel tego ostatniego, William...
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- W 1884 r. Abercrombie Smith, sportowiec i student medycyny na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim, zostaje wezwany do pokoi swojego sąsiada i kolegi Edwarda Bellinghama. Bellingham, fanatycznego student egiptologii, który posiada wiele starożytnych egipskich artefaktów, który zemdlał z powodu szoku. Kiedy Smith wykorzystuje swoje umiejętności medyczne, aby ożywić Bellinghama, przyjaciel tego ostatniego, William...
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- If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. The Sherlock Holmes Collection: 4 Novels („The Study in Scarlet”, „The Sign of Four”, „The Valley of Fear”, „The Hound of the Baskervilles”) and 43 Short Stories. They are all told as Dr. Watson’s memoirs and are excellently written....
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- Warm, brilliant, and cloudless was the July noon. Beneath the summer sun the broad, shallow waters of the Meuse sparkled as they rippled swiftly onward through the deep, winding valley of grey rocks and cool woods on their way from the mountains of Lorraine, through peaceful, prosperous Belgium, towards the sea.
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- Frederick Merrick White wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name „Fred M. White” including the seven „Gipsy” Tale. The story of how the small town began to go crazy. The dining room was closed until sunset on Saturday, and thus eight thousand people scattered in huts along a beautiful valley were thrown at their own expense. They played cricket with some energy, they bathed in mountain...
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- Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert. „The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in total) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, the Boscombe Valley, an illustrious client and a creeping man.
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- The seventh issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. A cypher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale as Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. Central to the novel lies the story of a terrorist brotherhood and the hold it acquires over...
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- It is this collection that includes stories that became insanely popular in the early 20th century and still remain popular. This story is about one of the greatest detectives of our time, recorded by his friend and partner. A resident of an unpretentious house on Baker Street, one after another, reveals the most difficult cases, easily transforms into bandits, booksellers, chimney sweeps. he multibook...
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- This science fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt concerns American Leif Langdon who accidentally discovers a hidden valley in Alaska that unexpectedly supports abundant life, including two tribes of people: a pygmy race; and warriors who descend from Mongols. The warriors worship an evil Kraken, whom they summon to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants believe Langdon to be the reincarnation of their...
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- Bestsellerowa seria mistrzyni kryminału z wykraczającą poza wszelkie stereotypy inspektor. „Vera to jedna z najbardziej interesujących bohaterek literackich. Jej garderoba może być wiecznie w nieładzie, ona sama może często sięgać po drinka, ale żaden przestępca nie może się mierzyć z jej przenikliwością, umiejętnością dedukcji i intuicją”. express.co.uk Seria VERA tom 7 „Dwa ciała, powiązane ze...
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- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This collection of stories consists of: A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe...
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- In this second volume of all the collected works that feature Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson, the reader gets reacquainted with the great detective and his friend through 33 short stories and 2 novels with the added bonus of two Doyle written parodies as well as two essays by the author. Volume 2 begins with „The Hound of the Baskervilles”, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen...
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- In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. Once more, they are solved by this bloodhound of a genius. This great series addition of Sherlock Holmes includes a full-length 1 novel and short stories. Volume 3 continues the exciting adventures of the world’s most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting...
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