Private Investigators

Anne arrives in London in search of adventure when trgedy finds her. A thin man, dishevelled and giving off a stench of mothballs, topples onto the tracks and is electrocuted on the rails. Scotland Yard believe it is an accidental death. But Anne is not convinced. Who was the man in the brown suit who she saw poking around the body? And why did he leave so sharply, leaving a message behind: "17-122 Kilmorden Castle"?

"Questo libro è come un pranzo di Natale preparato da un vero chef. E lo chef sono io!" Così Agatha Christie presenta la sua raccolta in sei gustosissime portate: dall'antipasto al dessert, cinque indagini dell'inossidabile Poirot, alle prese con rubini scomparsi, omicidi simulati o reali, inquietanti sogni premonitori, un cadavere ritrovato in una cassapanca, una coppia di sposi particolarmente litigiosa, un anziano signore dalle abitudini alimentari troppo prevedibili. E in più, come il cioccolatino dopo il caffè, un racconto con protagonista Miss Marple.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original title was "The Dancing Men," when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language.

The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Priory School tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire.

Als der Zeitungsjunge Billy Sherlock Holmes eines Tages von seinem verschwundenen Freund Jake und dessen vermisster Schwester Lilly erzählt, lässt sich dieser nicht lange bitten. Gemeinsam suchen sie das Waisenhaus von Miss Walsh auf. Doch die Ungereimtheiten die sich bei diesem Besuch ergeben, lassen Holmes böses Erahnen. Zusammen mit Eddy und Alice geht er der einzigen Spur nach, die sie haben. Was die drei dabei schließlich entdecken, lässt einem das Blut in den Adern gefrieren.

The Greek Interpreter, 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. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked The Greek Interpreter seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

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. A man named Blessington, claiming to have some money to invest, has set Trevelyan up in premises with a prestigious address and paid all his expenses.

The Reigate Squires was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Reigate Squire twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France. Holmes finds that his services are needed here, but he also finds that his recent illness serves him well. His host is Colonel Hayter.

The Crooked Man, 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 Crooked Man 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime suspect.

In Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie presents eleven riveting short stories featuring the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. From high-stakes jewel thefts to baffling murders, Poirot faces a variety of complex and puzzling cases that challenge his remarkable intellect and investigative prowess. In these tales, Poirot must unravel a web of deception involving missing persons, secret identities, and shocking crimes, using his keen observation and logical deductions to reveal the truth.

Ein Kollege von Dr. Watson bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe: Ein wichtiger Spieler des Fußballvereins Portsmouth AFC wurde Opfer eines brutalen tätlichen Angriffs. Holmes und Watson reisen an die Kanalküste, um die Hintergründe zu ermitteln.

Kathryn Walker enjoys an enviable life. Her husband is an accomplished doctor, her children are bright and successful, and she devotes herself to charity work that uplifts her Suburban Colorado community. Settling into a new year, her life couldn’t be better. . . Until April.

A hotshot venture capitalist—whose gold country is Silicon Valley—hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother. The geologists are hooked by the story of this lost man, this wounded soul. And they have the skills to find him. It's what they do: view a rock under the microscope and unravel a mystery. Solve a crime. Prevent a crisis. Find a missing person.

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

Nachdem Watson wieder bei Holmes in der Bakerstreet eingezogen war und bei Holmes wieder der Alltag Einkehr hielt, kämpfte Watson weiterhin tagtäglich mit den Geistern der Vergangenheit. Der Tot seiner geliebten Caroline verfolgte ihn bis tief in die Nacht hinein. Holmes befand, dass es an der Zeit war, Watson mit seinen Erlebnissen zu konfrontieren, damit dieser endlich mit dem Mord an seiner Frau abschließen konnte.

Die Box versammelt insgesamt 10 Kriminalfälle aus Doyles Kurzgeschichtenbänden Die Abschiedsvorstellung und Die letzten Fälle. Nachdem Sherlock Holmes knapp dem Tod entronnen ist, wird der Meisterdetektiv tatsächlich etwas milder und lächelt sogar ab und an, was seiner genialen Kombinationsgabe jedoch keinen Abbruch tut. Die Hörspiel-Edition enthält die legendären Inszenierungen des Bayerischen Rundfunks und des Saarländischen Rundfunks aus den 60er-Jahren sowie Hörspiele des SWR aus den 80er-Jahren — mit herausragenden Sprechern wie Peter Pasetti und René Deltgen.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written 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 of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.

Der zwangsverordnete Urlaub im tristen Cornwall nimmt für Sherlock Holmes und seinen Freund Dr. Watson eine unerwartete Wendung - Mortimer Tregennis bittet den Meisterdetektiv, die entsetzlichen Dinge aufzuklären, die sich ihm an jenem Morgen im Hause seiner Geschwister boten: Die beiden Brüder hatten über Nacht den Verstand und seine Schwester ihr Leben verloren. Und rätselhafterweise saßen alle drei noch genauso am Tisch, wie er sie am Vorabend verlassen hatte. Nichts deutete darauf hin, was sich in der vergangenen Nacht dort abgespielt haben könnte.

Das Verschwinden der Lady Frances Carfax (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax) erschien erstmals im Dezember 1911 im Strand Magazine mit Illustrationen von Alec Ball. 1917 wurde er mit sieben anderen Fällen in dem Sammelband Seine Abschiedsvorstellung veröffentlicht. Der Fall erschien in Deutschland auch unter dem Titel Das geheimnisvolle Verschwinden der Lady Frances Carfax. Die alleinstehende und durch Europa reisende Lady Frances Carfax ist bereits seit mehreren Wochen spurlos verschwunden.

Die Pappschachtel (The Cardboard Box) erschien erstmals Anfang 1893 im Strand Magazine und wurde 1917 mit sieben anderen Fällen in dem Sammelband „Seine Abschiedsvorstellung“ veröffentlicht. Dieser Fall wird vor allem in britischen Ausgaben des Kanons der Kurzgeschichtensammlung Die Memoiren des Sherlock Holmes zugerechnet. Die amerikanischen Verleger befanden die Geschichte als zu brisant und druckten sie erst mit sieben anderen in der Abschiedsvorstellung ab. Eine alleinstehende Dame bekommt ein Paket, das zwei frisch abgetrennte menschliche Ohren enthält.

Wisteria Lodge (Wisteria Lodge) erschien erstmals im August 1908 im Collier's Weekly und im August und September desselben Jahres im Strand Magazine. Ein aufgeregter Mann kommt zu Holmes in die Baker Street 221 b und erzählt, dass er die letzte Nacht bei einem flüchtigen Bekannten verbracht habe. Als er am nächsten Morgen aufgestanden sei, wäre das Haus, das Wisteria Lodge genannt wird, wie ausgestorben gewesen. Noch bevor er dies berichtet, erscheint schon ein Scotland Yard-Inspektor, der ihn wegen des Mordes an dem verschwundenen Hausbesitzer festnehmen will.

Seine Abschiedsvorstellung (His Last Bow) erschien erstmals im September 1917 im Collier's Weekly und im Strand Magazine. Am Vorabend des ersten Weltkrieges treffen sich der deutsche Botschaftsrat Baron von Herling mit dem besten Geheimagenten des deutschen Kaiserreiches von Bork in dessen Landhaus. Die beiden feiern die Erfolge, die von Bork in den letzten vier Jahren in England erzielt hatte, konnte er doch eine Unmenge an strategisch wichtigen Informationen nach Berlin weiter leiten.