Classic Detective

הרוצח עכשיו בינינו – ברכבת..." סמוך לחצות הליל רכבת האוריינט אקספרס המפורסמת נעצרת על המסילה מפאת השלג הכבד. עם בוקר מתגלה גופתו של המיליונר סמואל אדוארד ראצ'ט בתאו הנעול, הוא נדקר תריסר פעמים. הרכבת מבודדת בשלג, איש לא עלה לקרון בסּופה - אחד מן הנוסעים האחרים מוכרח להיות הרוצח. הבלש הרקול פוארו, שנמצא ברכבת בדרכו מאיסטנבול ללונדון, חייב לפתור את התעלומה לפני שיהיה עוד רצח - מי משנים עשר הנוסעים ירצה לפגוע בראצ'ט? מתברר כי לכל אחד ואחד מהם עשוי להיות מניע משלו. ספרה הנודע של אגתה כריסטי רואה כעת אור בעברית בתרגום חדש ועדכני של מיכל אלפון.

The 11th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government...

The 12th installment in the Aubrey/ Maturin series. The time is the early 1800s, and the British Navy stands as the only bulwark against the militant fanaticism of Napoleonic France. Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers. The chase that follows...

Firebreak takes ruthless career criminal Parker to a palatial Montana “hunting lodge” where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters—which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion’s tight security. The forests of Montana are an...

The Studebaker household is in turmoil; the news that President McKinley has been assassinated is more than anyone can stand. South Bend, Indiana, is not a hotbed of anarchist activity, but something is clearly going on. When McKinley's death is blamed on foreign-born anarchists, Hilda Johansson...

Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means. The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the...

Dorothy Martin is fitting in comfortably in her new English home, and now that her policeman husband, Alan, has retired, she’s looking forward to some quiet time with him. But then the letter arrives: an old acquaintance in Indiana has died and left her a small inheritance. It seems an excuse...

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody...

El libro incluye 13 historias y la historia "El valle del miedo", sobre las aventuras del famoso detective y su amigo el Dr. Watson. Una mentalidad peculiar, una energía inagotable, una lógica asombrosa y la observación de Sherlock Holmes hacen que cada historia sea inolvidable. La huella de una rueda de bicicleta, una mancuerna ausente, un fragmento de un telegrama y un rasguño viejo en los muebles se convierten para el personaje principal en evidencia irrefutable de la revelación de delitos graves y evidencia de su talento único.

Los temas de estas doce nuevas aventuras, recopiladas bajo el título de "Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes" en 1894 son variados: "La Gloria Scott", "El jorobado" y "El paciente interno" tratan de dilucidar crímenes ocurridos en el pasado; El tratado naval es una historia de espionaje; Los hacendados de Reigate y El intérprete griego nos hablan de la avaricia; o El oficinista del corredor de bolsa, que trata de un timo cometido por motivos inconfesables.

El archivo de Sherlock Holmes (título original: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes) es un conjunto de cuentos breves escritos por Arthur Conan Doyle, cuyo protagonista es Sherlock Holmes. La mayoría de los cuentos están relatados por el doctor Watson, el fiel compañero de Holmes.

Este relato, que iba a ser el epílogo de Sherlock Holmes, comienza de una forma poco usual: "Eran las 9 de la noche del día 2 de agosto, del más terrible mes de agosto de la historia del mundo." Dos alemanes, Von Bork, el más importante espía alemán en el Reino Unido, y el barón Von Herling, bromean con cierta prepotencia sobre los británicos. Conan Doyle aprovecha la ocasión, que él mismo se da, para criticar la insuficiente preparación de su país para la guerra que se avecina.

This is the second novella detailing the continuing adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, and his friend and colleague, Dr. John Watson. In The Sign of Four, Holmes and Watson are hired by Mary Morstan to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her father's death, which will set them on the trail of a lost Indian treasure and in pursuit of two of the strangest criminals in the Holmes canon.

El Dr. James Mortimer pide ayuda a Sherlock Holmes después de la muerte de su amigo, Sir Charles Baskerville, hallado muerto en su propiedad de Devonshire. A pesar de que la muerte de Charles fue diagnosticada por un ataque al corazón, Mortimer no termina de creérselo, ya que en el rostro del difunto se percibía una expresión de pánico.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year.

Holmes encounters one of his most formidable adversaries and must unlock the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of the Baskerville family. Published in The Strand magazine in episodes between August 1901 and April 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles became one of the most popular of all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

A man named Adolphe visits Leroux at his office at the Morning Journal and delivers to him a chest that was bequeathed to him by his friend Theophraste Longuet. Leroux begins investigating its contents and relates the very strange experience of Longuet. While visiting a famous prison, Theophraste Longuet, a retired rubber stamp manufacturer, is possessed by the spirit of Cartouche, a criminal who plagued Paris in the 18th century.

Brought together by a mutual friend, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discover that they have much more in common than the fact that they're roommates. As Watson begins assisting Sherlock with his work as a consulting detective, he notices that Sherlock has an uncanny ability to assemble deductions based on seemingly minor details.

Este libro es una explosiva mezcla de crimen, suspense, pistas falsas y venganzas, donde los archifamosos Sherlock Holmes, doctor Watson e inspector Lestrade unirán sus fuerzas por vez primera para seguir el rastro de un misterioso asesino en las calles de Londres.