Risultati per "Sherlock Holmes" in Hard boiled

In The Valley of Fear, the great detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful friend Dr. Watson arrive to find they are too late---Douglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling card left by his side. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes, detecting the diabolical workings of his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, has some ideas of his own.

The year 1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife, Audrey, and their three-year-old son, Harry. Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.

Hear the tale of how the mighty Sherlock Holmes was bested by a woman's wit. Included in this recording is the first story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection, "A Scandal in Bohemia."

'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's Christmas, and Holmes is enticed to solve yet another mystery when a Christmas goose is found in the street - having been dropped by a man in a scuffle - with a near priceless jewel lodged in its neck.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in "The Strand Magazine" from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound.