Private Detective Fiction

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902, which was set before Holmes' "death", Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - The Hound of the Baskervilles. In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

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.

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty.

Nineteen-year-old college student Eliza Hennessey is trans—and she has a rocky relationship with her father, their new client. Brian's convinced his daughter's vanished, rather than run away, but Fran and Ken aren't so sure she wants to be found. The PI duo investigate, and soon Fran is butting heads with her irritating sort-of-ex-boyfriend Mank at the NYPD, who has what seems to be a similar case on his desk. But not even Fran could guess how tangled their investigations are going to get—or how deep they'll need to dive into murder and mayhem to solve the case!

In this epic standalone from David Swinson "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (NYTBR), Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: 'how far would you go to love the wrong woman?' In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares...

Nachdem es in Palästina zu einer Reihe von Anschlägen auf Einrichtungen der osmanischen Verwaltung kommt, erhält Sherlock Holmes einen Auftrag der britischen Regierung: Er soll mit Dr. Watson nach Jerusalem reisen, um die Täter aufzuspüren und eine weitere Destabilisierung der Region zu unterbinden.

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision.

Vier spannende und geheimnisvolle neue Abenteuer mit Sherlock Holmes und seinem Freund Doktor Watson.

Louise Penny, con su prosa envolvente y sensual y su talento para subyugarnos con los mínimos detalles del entorno y los rasgos más sutiles de los personajes, no hace más que subrayar la sempiterna ignominia que permanece agazapada en el fondo del ser humano, lista para dar el zarpazo en cualquier instante.

No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain...

THE HUDSON VALLEY MYSTERY. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY HAS TAKEN PLACE JUST OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY. A YOUNG MAN MURDERED HIS FATHER AND THEN WENT STARK RAVING MAD. Sherlock Holmes is called upon by the lad's mother to solve the crime. So Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson make their way to America. There they meet the villains of Tammany Hall and maybe - no one will ever know - a ghostly apparition the haunts the pleasant glade known as Sleepy Hollow.

La signora Maigret è finita sulle prime pagine dei giornali insieme a un'amica che le ha giocato un brutto scherzo scomparendo misteriosamente dopo averle lasciato un bambino di due anni. E come se non bastasse la Signora ha deciso di ribellarsi al suo celebre marito e mettersi a indagare al posto suo. Cosa le sarà venuto in mente? Maigret è incredulo e soprattutto non capisce cosa colleghi questa vicenda all'impossibile caso Steuvels che tormenta la polizia giudiziaria.

Ein Fall, in dem Sherlock Holmes über die Welt der Pulp Fiction und das Geheimnis des Teufels von St. James schlussendlich das Ziel seiner Ermittlungen erreicht: das Feuer der Hölle.

Nicht einen Moment glaubt der berühmte Privatdetektiv Sherlock Holmes daran, dass es sich bei den irrlichternden Phantomen, die angeblich die Ostsee-Insel Hiddensee heimsuchen, um die Geister der Wikinger handelt, deren Goldschatz vierzig Jahre zuvor ebendort gefunden wurde. Dennoch nimmt er den Auftrag des Museums in Stralsund an, in dem der spektakuläre Goldfund verwahrt wird.

War der Tod in Meiringen nur Zufall? Nein! Wie Holmes seinem Freund Watson hier nun erklärt, hat die tödliche Begegnung mit Moriarty dort stattfinden müssen. Alles wird also klar, und nun lebt Moriarty nicht mehr. Sein hinterlistiges Wirken ist jedoch nicht erloschen. Skrupellose Hintermänner sind noch am Werk. Andere, erschreckende Taten werden noch geplant. Warum wirkt ein brutaler Mord in der riesigen Ausstellungshalle des Londoner Crystal Palace so verhängnisvoll? Was ist es, dass hier aufzuflammen droht? Und wer sind die Erben Moriartys? Werden Holmes and Watson dahinterkommen?

Drei Geschichten aus der Welt von Sherlock Holmes: Der Tod eines Veteranen führt Doktor Watson nach Cornwall, wo Holmes einen Mordfall vermutet, der mit dem britischen Militäreinsatz in Afghanistan zu tun hat.

War der Tod in Meiringen nur Zufall? Nein! Wie Holmes seinem Freund Watson hier nun erklärt, hat die tödliche Begegnung mit Moriarty dort stattfinden müssen. Alles wird also klar, und nun lebt Moriarty nicht mehr. Sein hinterlistiges Wirken ist jedoch nicht erloschen. Skrupellose Hintermänner sind noch am Werk. Andere, erschreckende Taten werden noch geplant. Warum wirkt ein brutaler Mord in der riesigen Ausstellungshalle des Londoner Crystal Palace so verhängnisvoll? Was ist es, dass hier aufzuflammen droht? Und wer sind die Erben Moriartys?

Ein Fall, in dem Sherlock Holmes über die Welt der Pulp Fiction und das Geheimnis des Teufels von St. James schlussendlich das Ziel seiner Ermittlungen erreicht: das Feuer der Hölle.