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In Turin angekommen, bezogen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson zuerst ihre Unterkunft und machten sich anschließend sofort auf den Weg, um mit Kardinal Fassati zu sprechen. Es stellte sich heraus, dass nur drei Leute einen Schlüssel zur Grabtuchkapelle besaßen. Der Kardinal selbst und zwei seiner engsten Vertrauten, der ältere Pastor Spina und ein jüngerer Pastor namens Milani. Als Watson abends noch zu einer Gassirunde mit seinem Hund aufbrach, machte er im Park eine Entdeckung. 13 Männer hatten sich um eine Tafel versammelt und speisten. Einer davon trug das Turiner Grabtuch.

Endlich hatten Holmes und Watson wieder eine neue Spur. Einer der Pastoren hatte eine heimliche Geliebte. Leider stellte sich auch dieser neue Hoffnungsschimmer bald als Sackgasse heraus. Auch gab es keinen neuen Hinweis darauf, ob eines der aufgefundenen Grabtücher das Original oder allesamt nur Plagiate waren. So entschloss sich Holmes für eine Verhörmethode die alles bisher Dagewesene übertraf.

"C'est le coeur serré que je prends la plume pour tracer ces lignes, les dernières où je parlerai jamais des dons singuliers qui faisaient de mon ami Sherlock Holmes un être d'exception. D'une façon assez décousue et, à mon sentiment, assez malhabile, je me suis efforcé d'écrire le récit des étranges aventures que j'ai vécues à ses côtés, depuis le jour où le hasard nous rapprocha, à l'époque d'Une étude en rouge, jusqu'à celui où Holmes intervint dans l'affaire que j'ai rapportée dans Le Traité naval.

The Baskerville family of Dartmoor live under an appalling curse. They are haunted by a monstrous hound that has sent many of them to an early grave. Can our legendary sleuth save Sir Henry Baskerville before the hound strikes again?

Dr Watson calls upon Sherlock Holmes in order to wish him a Merry Christmas and finds his friend making an intensive study of a shabby looking hat. Holmes tells Watson that a few nights ago a commissionaire named Peterson had witnessed a gang of roughs assail a drunken man in the street. Peterson rushed forward to help the man but everyone in the group ran off when they saw Peterson’s official uniform. The victim of the attack had dropped his hat and a goose when he ran. Peterson brought the items to Holmes who suggested that Peterson should take the goose home to eat whilst he himself ...

Welche Verbindung besteht zwischen einem mittelalterlichen holländischen Maler wie Hieronymus Bosch und einer unheimlichen Mordserie im London des Jahres 1895? Keine, meint Inspektor Lestrade von Scotland Yard. Doch Sherlock Holmes ist anderer Ansicht. Gemeinsam mit Dr. John Watson ermittelt er in finsteren Opiumhöhlen und einem geheimnisvollen Wasserschloss. Dabei lernt er eine zwielichtige Opernsängerin, einen rätselhaften Gnom und einen heruntergekommenen Engelmacher kennen.

An einem sonnigen Vormittag im Juni suchte Holmes und Watson eine Frau auf, die sich Sorgen um ihren Ehegatten machte. Dieser behauptete nämlich auf einer Geschäftsreise im Ausland zu sein, doch seine Ehefrau sichtete ihn ein paar Tage zu vor in der Stadt. Da Holmes den Fall verschmähte, beschloss Watson der Frau zu helfen. Watson nahm die Fährte auf und fand recht rasch Dinge über den abtrünnigen Ehemann heraus, die seiner Frau wahrscheinlich nicht gefallen würden.

In "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attempted a feat that even the greatest criminal minds in England could not accomplish: He tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes. (And he very nearly succeeded.) Doyle's 1894 collection of short stories—which featured some of the most enjoyable tales in the Holmes canon, including "Silver Blaze," "The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Crooked Man"—concludes with what was meant to be the last Sherlock Holmes story, "The Final Problem."

Eine Frau besucht spätabends die Baker Street, weil ihr Mann spurlos verschwunden ist; im Gepäck den Durchschlag eines ominösen Briefs. Er ist an eine gewisse Alba adressiert. Handelt es sich um einen gewöhnlichen Fall von Ehebruch oder steckt mehr dahinter?

Bei Scotland Yard ist ein Kollege der französischen Polizei zu Gast: Dr. Bertillon stellt sein modernes biometrisches Erfassungssystem vor. Schon bald kommt die kriminaltechnische Neuerung auch Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in die Quere.

"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", 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 wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by burglars. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the infamous Randall gang who have committed several other burglaries in the neighborhood.

"The Adventure of the Second Stain", 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" and the only unrecorded case mentioned passively by Watson to be written. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Second Stain" eighth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.

"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", 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". It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance.

"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.

"The Adventure of the Empty House", 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". Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem".

"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 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 Charles Augustus Milverton" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" and was published in 1904. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers".

"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.

"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", 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". One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street to discuss the violent death of Willoughby Smith, secretary to aged invalid Professor Coram. Coram had dismissed his previous two secretaries. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent, with a sealing-wax knife of the professor's as the weapon.