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Eine schreckliche Tragödie hat vor den Toren von New York stattgefunden. Ein junger Mann hat seinen Vater ermordet und scheint vollkommen durchgedreht zu sein. Sherlock Holmes wird von der Mutter des armen Kerls kontaktiert. Holmes und Dr. Watson machen sich also auf den Weg nach Amerika. Dort treffen sie den Ganoven Tammany Hall und - niemand wird das jemals mit voller Gewissheit sagen können - einem Geist, der an der Westküste vor allem unter dem Namen Sleepy Hollow bekannt geworden ist.

Eine auffallend schöne Frau aus dem Süden kommt nach London, auf der Suche nach ihrem entfremdeten Ehemann. Sie nimmt Kontakt mit Mitarbeitern ihres Ehemanns auf. Alle drei sind ein paar Tage später tot, erdrosselt von einer Gruppe von Anarchisten. Sie wendet sich an Holmes. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich und führen die Gruppe reitend durch Südengland. Es beginnt ein Lauf gegen die Zeit, um ein katastrophales Attentat zu verhindern und das Imperium zu retten.

Für Sherlock Holmes wird sie immer die Nonne sein. Aber führt diese brillante junge Frau ein geheimes Doppelleben - ein Leben, das viel zu sinnlich für ein Mitglied eines heiligen Ordens ist? Sie hilft bei archäologischen Ausgrabungen in der zerstörten Abtei von St. Edmund. Dort wird ein versiegelter Kanister ausgegraben. Es stellt sich heraus, dass das Dokument im Kanister wesentlichen Einfluss auf den Kurs des britischen Empire und der gesamten Christenheit haben kann, sollte es publik werden. Der Bischof der Abtei sucht die Hilfe von Sherlock Holmes.

Kaum ist Sherlock Holmes für einen Kurzurlaub in Plymouth angekommen, findet er sich mitten in einem ungelösten Verbrechen wieder - den Telegraphenmorden. Zwei Elektroingenieure wurden tot aufgefunden, nachdem sie einen Vertrag für das neue Telegrafenamt von Western Union abgeschlossen hatten. Holmes' ungewöhnliche Helferin ist eine fromme, attraktive Frau, die Inhaberin einer christlichen Buchhandlung ist.

Du brauchst mehr Sherlock? Du liebst die Geschichten von Doyles Kanon, aber du willst mehr... mehr Geschichten, die den sechzig Originalen ähneln. Hier bist du richtig. Die einzigartige Tragödie der Atkinson-Brüder in Trincomalee: An Bord des Dampfschiffes Redolent, das kurz vor dem Hafen von Colombo lag, musste ich an die Worte des Kirchenliedes denken, das ich als Schuljunge in der Kapelle gesungen hatte. Sie sollten sich als besonders vorhersagend erweisen. Unter gewöhnlicheren Umständen hätten sowohl der Blick in den sternenbedeckten Himmel als auch die warme, feuchttropische Brise im Gesicht die Sinne erfreut.

THE MAN WHO WAS TWISTED BUT HIP. It is 1897 and France is torn apart by The Dreyfus Affair, a disgraceful episode of anti-Semitism that plagued France for a decade and brought out the worst of behavior in far too many French men and women. Westminster needs help from Sherlock Holmes to make sure that the evil tide of anti-Semitism that has engulfed France will not spread. While spending an uneventful morning searching for his nephew, Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes and together they watch as a man is murdered, a direct consequence of the anti-Semitic conflict that is raging just across the Channel.

Eine schöne, junge Frau betritt die Baker Street 221B. Ihr Vater, dessen engster Freund und ein junger Medizinstudent sind alle in den letzten zwei Wochen gestorben. Obwohl jede Leiche kurz nach dem Tod gefunden wurde, war stets die Totenstarre bereits eingetreten. Die junge Frau glaubt, dass alle ermordet wurden, und sucht die Hilfe von Sherlock Holmes. Die Geschichte ist von der ursprünglichen Sherlock Holmes-Geschichte "Das Zeichen der Vier" inspiriert. Fans von Sherlock Holmes finden hier ihre geliebten Charaktere in einem völlig neuen Krimi.

Du brauchst mehr Sherlock? Du liebst die Geschichten von Doyles Kanon, aber du willst mehr... mehr Geschichten, die den sechzig Originalen ähneln. Hier bist du richtig. Das Fass Lagavulin: "Ah, Watson, wie nett von Ihnen, sich mir anzuschließen. Ich hoffe, ich habe Ihre Arbeit im Krankenhaus nicht gestört." "Keineswegs. Wir jüngeren Ärzte werden nicht gerade überlaufen von Patienten." "Noch nicht, mein lieber Junge. Noch nicht. Ich bin jedoch sehr dankbar, dass Sie hier sind, und ich gehe davon aus, dass es Ihnen gefallen wird, mein Treffen mit diesem Kollegen aufzuzeichnen."

There’s no crying in baseball. But there is murder. And when the World Series is fought between two teams both from New York City, millions of dollars are bet. And lives are at risk. When a young man from the Yankees and a young woman from the Giants are found dead, the Press sniffed about a tragic accident. Thoughts and prayers were sent. When Dr. Tabitha Stancović examined the bodies in her pathology lab, she knew it was murder. So, she and her assistant, Sergeant Johan Klassen, are forced into action before more victims—possibly even the members of the teams—are killed. The story ...

THE BRAND OF THE FLYING FOUR. This case all began one quiet evening—very quiet; bordering on boring—while we were sitting by the hearth in our rooms in Kansas City.i was just chewing the fat with my mentor, the Reverend Ezekiel Black -- he's what you might call the Sherlock Holmes of the American West -- when a message came that kind of upended everything. A few weeks later, a murder, perhaps the most gruesome I had ever witnessed in all my born days, took place in Denver, immediately above our heads. By the time it all ended, justice, of the frontier variety, not the courtroom, had ...

SHERLOCK AND BARACK. This is NOT a New Sherlock Holmes Mystery. It is a research paper contributing to the amateur academic discipline known as Sherlockian studies. Also known as The Great Game. If the reader are not familiar with this discipline then you could start by googling "(Sherlock) The Great Game" and then indulge your imagination, employ skills of scientific deduction, and enjoy yourself. The particular study inquires into the questions - Why did Barack Obama win in November 2012? Why did Mitt Romney lose? Pundits and political scientists have offered countless reasons. This study...

If you are a concerned conservative citizen who is thinking about running for public office, this book is for you. It will teach you how to be electable – perceived as competent, qualified, attractive and caring – and will empower you to defeat your liberal opponents, and win! If you are a volunteer, helping your conservative colleague in his or her election campaign, this book is for you. It will show you, step by step, how to plan, organize and deliver a winning election campaign for any public or state office. If you are tasked with raising funds for a conservative campaign or ballot...

Raging at liberals or spouting clever insults at Democrats is fun. And easy. And will do nothing to change America. Electing conservatives to the over 600,000 public offices throughout the country is hard work. But it is what we have to do if we want to to make a difference. Are you a conservative running for election to public office? If you are then this book will help you become a stronger candidate, and win. Are you helping your fellow conservative get elected to a local or state office? If you are How to Elect Conservatives will help you plan and deliver a successful election campaign....

A MAD WOMAN IS MURDERING LONDON BACHELORS BY DRIVING A RAILWAY SPIKE THROUGH THEIR HEADS Scotland Yard demands that Sherlock Holmes help them find and stop a crazed murderess who is re-enacting the biblical murders by Jael. Holmes agrees and finds that revenge is being taken for deeds treachery and betrayal that took place ten years ago in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade must move quickly before more men and women lose their lives. The story is a tribute to the original Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of Black Peter. Buy it now and enjoy.

Kill a man because of his hat? Ridiculous. But it happened. In New York City. Twice. The Big Apple saw countless absurd events during the 1920s. The most moronic took place in September 1922, when gangs of young men--and a few women—roamed the streets of the financial district and the better-off neighborhoods, and knocked the straw hats off those who dared to wear them after the 15th of the month. Many straw-hatters were bullied. Some were assaulted. A few were beaten. And two were murdered. All because of their hats. That’s what the police said. Beaten to death by anonymous thugs. Or ...

The Stock Market Murders. A clever Cambridge graduate who works in The City goes missing. Two of his classmates are found murdered. Holmes investigates and finds that all of them were caught up in the greatest fraud ever visited upon the citizens of England. The tentacles of the financial empire behind it reach to the far corners of the globe. In London, they are wrapped around the construction of the new Bakerloo Underground line. Millions of pounds are about to vanish. The characters and actions in the story are borrowed from the historical events surrounding the life of James Whittaker ...

Six students receive death threats. For a lark over the summer, they wrote a satirical book. It made fun of the crimes and foibles of a fictional baron. Some real baron somewhere does not think it’s funny. They got too much of his story right. And now he is out to kill them. They appeal to Sherlock Holmes. But he is too busy with his bees, and so he sends Dr. Watson. What Watson discovers is terrifying. Soon he, Holmes and the students are in a race against time to unmask the villain and take him down before more lives are destroyed. This New Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the 55th in the ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE TREACHEROUS TRUST. A beautiful, brilliant young woman attracts the attention of a wealthy, older gentleman. He insist that she join the board of directors of a popular charity, run by his son. A meeting of the directors is held at the family estate. She attends and quarrels with the son. An hour later, she falls off the roof terrace. Nobody can believe that her death is anything but a tragic accident. Nobody, that is, except her sister, Miss Violet Westbury. A year earlier, Violet's fiancé, Cadogan West, was murdered and his body dumped on top of a railway carriage. ...

THE YELLOW FARCE. AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN WOMAN LIVING IN JAPAN MAY BE A FOREIGN AGENT AND DRAWING BRITAIN INTO WAR. “Sherlock, this woman must be investigated. Every fortnight, she abandons her husband for several days, and every month a large sum of money appears in their bank account.” “Oh, my. Half the married men on earth who would be on their knees thanking whatever gods they believe in were their wives to do likewise.” In far-off Japan, a war is raging against the Russians. Great Britain is officially neutral, but not entirely. The Japanese are buying their navy from us. The new ...

"Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department," said Holmes, with a smile. Dr. J. Watson is vulnerable. He has a tendency to fall in love. In these two books in the series of New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, he does just that. As my Valentine’s Day card to you, my readers and followers, I offer these two books (combined into one file) at the lowest Amazon would allow me to post. Included in this Valentine's Day card are The Sign of the Tooth and The Adventure of the Devilish Footnote. So, please: Click, download and enjoy. And happy Valentine’s Day, 2023. To be released on February 14 -- ...