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Itauk the Madman has spread death to the Yukon, throwing the bodies of his victims to his sled team of 12 wolves. Tracking him down are Canadian Mountie Tommy McKenna and his partner, Simmons. But when the pair separate to hunt for food, Itauk attacks Simmons and lets his wolves make an unmentionable feast that Tommy later discovers on his return to camp.

Percy "Tadpole" Phelps, an old school friend of Watson's, finds himself in a desperate situation. His career at the Foreign Office has been jeopardized by the disappearance of a secret treaty that was placed in his trust. Sherlock Holmes comes to the rescue of the disgraced diplomat.

Sherlock Holmes' superb deductive abilities are truly tested in this adventure when a client asks the Great Detective to help him discover what is frightening his new wife. What seems to Watson to be just a child's drawing becomes the key to solving the mystery.

A murder has been committed, and the most valuable clue is a gold-rimmed pince-nez (a type of eyeglasses without stems that are secured by pinching the nose) apparently dropped by the killer. Scotland Yard detective Stanley Hopkins returns as Sherlock's foil to contrast the common policeman's take on the mystery with Sherlock's own genius insight into the matter.

The bride of Lord St. Simon disappears on the day of their marriage. Holmes and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard are both called to help. Who will be the first to solve this mystery?

An unusual sequence of events in leads the legendary Sherlock Holmes to locate the precious jewel owned by the Countess of Morcar.

The Prime Minister comes to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from the dispatch box, was kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe - even war!

Holmes and Watson arrive at Trinity College, summoned by a message that rugby star, Godfrey Staunton, has disappeared. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby team, and they will never win the important match if he cannot be found. Holmes admits that sport is a bit outside his ken, but he takes this case as seriously as any other. It proves not all elementary.

Dr. Watson faints for the first and last time of his life when the believed-to-be-dead Holmes appears in the middle of an investigation of a crime. We find out about what really happened in the fight to the death with the evil Moriarty.

In Sherlock Holmes' first mystery short story, the great detective saves the future king of Bohemia from a possible blackmailer.

A beautiful woman bicycles down a lonely road, not knowing of the vile plots being launched against her. Has she talked to Holmes in time? A young music teacher terrorized by the mysterious figure who follows her as she bicycles appeals to Holmes, who is very nearly too late to save her from a monstrous fate.

Strange and bizarre events are occurring at the country estate known as Copper Beeches. The newly hired governess asks Holmes to unravel ghastly events and the unsavory characters who lived at the estate.

A son is accused of his father's murder, and the evidence against him looks overwhelming. But Miss Turner, a lovely young woman who has known him since childhood, refuses to believe he is guilty. She calls on Sherlock Holmes to see if he can find some loophole, some flaw in the circumstantial evidence. Holmes is certain that he can discover the true murderer, but will it be the undoing of Miss Turner?

Motivated by greed and jealousy, the criminal in this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery aims to kidnap a young lord - but causes a far greater tragedy.

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he greatly admires as a mentor, for some help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him besides.

1691, Salem, New England: la diciassettenne Lois Barclay sbarca dalla Redemption, il vascello che l'ha portata dal Vecchio al Nuovo Mondo. Dietro di sé, l'Inghilterra, il ricordo dei genitori e un amore; davanti a sé la famiglia dello zio che non ha mai visto e tante incognite. L'America che ci racconta Elizabeth Gaskell (Londra, 1810 - Alton, 1865) è quella della nuova frontiera, di un territorio ostile e selvaggio in cui i continui scontri con le tribù dei Nativi aumentano il senso di precarietà e vulnerabilità.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

Una joven monja pierde su fe al sentirse vulnerable en medio de una epidemia, en Etiopía. De regreso a casa es perseguida por un ser que ella siente, pero no conoce. Al final tendrá que enfrentarse a este ser para descubrir su propósito en este mundo.

Jamwal y Nisha se enamoran en Delhi, mientras esperan a que el semáforo se ponga en verde... así empieza una de los quince relatos que Jeffrey Archer ha reunido de todos los rincones del mundo durante los últimos cinco años hasta formar esta, su quinta antología de fascinantes cuentos cortos.

Con ánimo de vengarse de una pasada humillación, Montresor busca a Fortunato en plenos carnavales de alguna ciudad italiana (al parecer, Venecia) del siglo XIX. Ambos van disfrazados y gracias a que Fortunato está ebrio, el narrador logra convencerlo de que lo acompañe a la cueva de su palacio, las catacumbas de los Montresor, con el pretexto de probar un nuevo vino amontillado. Anímate a descubrir cómo el vengativo narrador, con una notable maligna inteligencia, humor negro, ironía y sadismo, consuma la más horrible venganza.