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Im westenglischen Boscombe Valley wird der Großfarmer Charles McCarthy an einem bewaldeten Teich tot aufgefunden, wo er einen wichtigen Termin mit einem Unbekannten gehabt haben soll. Holmes kommen hingegen Zweifel, weil er das resignative Verhalten des Sohnes bei dessen Verhaftung ganz und gar nicht als Schuldeingeständnis wertet. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von dem jungen John Openshaw um Hilfe gebeten, der einen Brief erhielt, in dem sich fünf getrocknete Orangenkerne befanden.

"Uno studio in rosso", il primo romanzo scritto da Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sulle indagini del detective Sherlock Holmes...

Kurz vor Weihnachten wird Sherlock Holmes mit einem Erpressungsfall konfrontiert. Der Geldverleiher Jacob Marley soll 10.000 Pfund bezahlen – widrigenfalls droht der Täter mit Konsequenzen. Holmes und Watson nehmen die Spur auf.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve short stories by 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.

Holmes steht vor einem moralischen Dilemma, als sich sein neuester Klient als ehemaliger Piratenkapitän entpuppt. Vor Jahren war dieser von seinen Kameraden um seinen Anteil an der Beute betrogen worden, weshalb er nun Holmes um Hilfe bei der Wiederbeschaffung seines verlorenen Schatzes bittet.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Ein heimtückischer Mord an einem außergewöhnlichen Opfer führt Sherlock Holmes in den Zoo von London. Während Scotland Yard der Angelegenheit wenig Bedeutung beimisst und die Ermittlungen einstellt, findet Holmes heraus, dass es sich in Wirklichkeit um ein politisches Attentat handeln könnte.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.

"The Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement.

John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.

"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from His Last Bow in most American versions. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1893. Miss Susan Cushing of Croydon receives a parcel in the post that contains two severed human ears packed in coarse salt.

"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final Problem" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories.

„Misterul din Valea Boscombe” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează uciderea unui proprietar de teren găsit mort lângă un lac din Valea Boscombe. Deși toate dovezile par să indice un tânăr drept principalul suspect...

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale---the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: -Das gefleckte Band (»The Speckled Band«) -Der Daumen des Ingenieurs (»The Engineer's Thumb«) -Der vornehme Junggeselle (»The Noble Bachelor«) -Das...

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: Ein Skandal in Böhmen (»A Scandal in Bohemia«) Die Liga der Rothaarigen (»The Red-Headed League«) Der rätselhafte Mord von Boscombe Valley (»The Boscombe...

Ein Skandal in Böhmen ist eine Erzählung des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Es handelt sich hierbei um die erste Erzählung, die Doyle mit den Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson schrieb. 1887 und 1890 hatten die beiden Romane Eine Studie in Scharlachrot und Das Zeichen der Vier das Fundament für den Hauptkanon der Sherlock-Holmes-Erzählungen gelegt. Der Bund der Rothaarigen ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte von Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In dieser zweiten Erzählung Doyles mit der Detektivfigur des Sherlock Holmes als Hauptperson geht es um ...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Arthur Conan Doyle; aunque su nombre estará siempre ligado a Sherlock Holmes, relatos como El cazador de escarabajos permiten descubrir al Conan Doyle más atmosférico y psicológico, un autor capaz de atrapar al oyente en muy pocos minutos y conducirlo hacia...

A missing man. A hidden identity. And a mystery that challenges even Sherlock Holmes. In The Man with the Twisted Lip, from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, what begins as a simple disappearance quickly unravels into one of the most unusual and thought-provoking cases...