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Giallo - short story (20 pagine) - The world’s greatest unsolved mystery.Soon after Holmes’s return from apparent death, Holmes and Watson return from a walk through London and find a preacher waiting...

Giallo - short story (20 pagine) - Holmes lets his emotionless façade slip by the Baker Street fireside..."Draw your chair up, good Watson, and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to...

Giallo - novelette (26 pagine) - The British Government commissions Holmes and Watson to travel to Germany to help the authorities find the man who shot Horst Wessel, the leader of the Storm Troopers.It...

Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930’s, petitions Holmes for help.The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the...

Giallo - novelette (26 pagine) - A thought-provoking mixture of detection and moralityIt is May 1940. The British army has been routed and is awaiting its evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk.Winston...

Giallo - racconto lungo (30 pagine) - Winston Churchill in persona si reca da Sherlock Holmes.Non c’è pace per Sherlock Holmes e per il Dottor Watson, nemmeno negli anni della pensione. La vita tranquilla...

Giallo - novelette (35 pagine) - A Sherlock Holmes story with many contemporary resonances“Is this the ending of days?” gasps Watson in this ground-breaking story of religion and the climate change.Holmes...

ORLANDO PEARSON, Dr Watson's successor as the assistant to Sherlock Holmes, was entrusted by the doctor with notes on cases too controversial to publish during Holmes's career. The three complete stories...

Giallo - novelette (28 pagine) - A must for all lovers of serious sleuthing.In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K (here rendered Joseph Carr) is arrested one morning although he has not done anything wrong, and...

Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - Holmes has to carry out some deft political manoeuvring, as he deals with an empire-threatening crisis.Holmes and Watson are seized by Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Edward...

Giallo - racconto lungo (23 pagine) - Un anziano predicatore di nome Giovanni scompare nel nullaUn anziano predicatore di nome Giovanni si reca a Baker Street per una consulenza sulla stesura delle sue...

Giallo - racconto lungo (41 pagine) - Possibile che si stiano avverando le profezie delle Sacre Scritture sulla fine dei tempi?La notte di Natale, in una stalla di Londra, nasce un bambino, che scompare...

Giallo - racconto lungo (29 pagine) - Sherlock Holmes e Watson convocati a Berlino.Gennaio 1930. Sherlock Holmes e il Dottor Watson vengono convocati a Berlino dall’ambasciatore britannico per investigare...

Giallo - racconto lungo (34 pagine) - Un mistero per il segugio di Baker Street tanto fitto quanto affascinanteSherlock Holmes si trova davanti a un mistero tanto fitto quanto affascinante. Joseph Carr,...

Giallo - racconto lungo (26 pagine) - Gottfreid von Cramm chiede supporto a Sherlock Holmes per sfuggire alle grinfie del Partito nazistaSherlock Holmes e il dottor Watson, si godono la pensione nella...

Giallo - racconto lungo (20 pagine) - Uno sconvolgente episodio dalle macabre sfumature goticheHolmes racconta a Watson del suo primo caso, uno sconvolgente episodio dalle macabre sfumature gotiche: l’incontro...

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before....

When does life begin?... A well-known book says "forty". A well-known radio program says "eighty". Some folks say it's mental, others say it's physical. But take the strange case of Mel Carlson who gave...

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

Trees filtering light onto dapple grass. Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery. Trees like butlers, bending courteously over placid walks...

Eski Yunanda, air Homerosun yazd varsaylan büyük bir destandr. Bir baka Homeros destan olan Ödeysseia ile birlikte, bat edebiyatnn en eski örnei ve tüm zamanlarn en güzel iirlerinden saylr. Hem lyada...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

The Pilgrim's Progress, religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man's pilgrimage through life. At one time...

"Ah there, girls! How are you?" — "GOD SPEED YOU" "Oh, Nathalie, I do believe there's Grace Tyson in her new motor-car," exclaimed Helen Dame, suddenly laying her hand on her companion's arm as the two...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

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