Private Detective

Норвудский архитектор один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе. Первая публикация в "Collier's Weekly" в декабре 1903 года. Шерлок Холмс соглашается помочь адвокату Джону Макфарлейну, несправедливо обвиненному в преступлении, которого он не совершал.

FViolet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from His Last Bow in most American versions. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1893. Miss Susan Cushing of Croydon receives a parcel in the post that contains two severed human ears packed in coarse salt. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard suspects a prank by three medical students whom Miss Cushing was forced to evict because of their unruly behaviour.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King. The king allows Holmes to retain the portrait as a souvenir.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance. Holmes does not reveal the truth to Mary because "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman".

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

A Blue Carbuncle is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.

Настоящим подарком для всех поклонников творчества А. Конан Дойла станет этот сборник рассказов. Несмотря на то, что в нем нет уже полюбившихся многим историй о Шерлоке Холмсе и его незаменимом помощнике Ватсоне, вас ждут не менее захватывающие, а временами и жуткие повествования.

Научно-фантастический роман "Маракотова бездна" стал последним крупным произведением Артура Конан Дойля. В романе описывается экспедиция профессора Маракота, который со своими спутниками опускается в глубоководную впадину Атлантического океана, где обнаруживает древний город Атлантиду.

Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrap heap. When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death. As Hardwick begins to unravel the mystery, he quickly comes to realize that Charlie Sparks' death throws up more peculiar questions than answers.

Late on a foggy November afternoon, a desperate young woman arrives at Baker Street, imploring Sherlock Holmes to help her. She is terrified about what may be going on inside a secretive London refuge for Russian exiles, where her sister works. Thus begins a frightening case which deeply strains both Holmes and Watson because of the dreadful consequences of failure and the mystifying nature of the forces against them.

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?

Meet Kyle King - a 30-something cop who has already accumulated the bitterness of a retiree and spends most shifts lapping the streets of Fullerton, California, with 90s hip hop as his siren song. Sick of having his own hands cuffed by the rigidness of traditional law enforcement, Kyle yearns to pursue the next generation of criminals who are making a mockery of the police force and running amok in cyberspace. The keyboard warriors have had free rein of the virtual world for too long without any accountability - until now.

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel.

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdedektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel. Ein ganzes Ensemble von Sprechern könnte es kaum besser machen."

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdedektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel. Ein ganzes Ensemble von Sprechern könnte es kaum besser machen."

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel. Ein ganzes Ensemble von Sprechern könnte es kaum besser machen."

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel. Ein ganzes Ensemble von Sprechern könnte es kaum besser machen."