THE SIGN OF FOUR is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The SIGN OF THE FOUR has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts («the Four» of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the de ...
A STUDY IN SCARLET is an 1887 detective novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation ...
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlo ...
Jason Dark John Sinclair – Folge 70 Die Hexeninsel Jack The Ripper hat gesiegt. Jane Collins scheint fur immer verloren zu sein. Wahrend Oberinspektor John Sinclair alles in seiner Macht Stehende versucht, um Jane zu befreien, wartet bereits die nachste todliche Falle auf den Geisterjager: Wikka, die Herrin aller Hexen, greift an! Es entbrennt ein Kampf, der vollig aussichtslos fur das Sinclair-Team scheint. Ein Kampf, der Johns Leben fur imm ...
This is the <em>Revised 1831 Edition of FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS</em>, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymou ...
This is the <em>Uncensored 1818 Edition FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS</em>, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymou ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized 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. Wa ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London on December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The book was written at a ti ...
Jason Dark John Sinclair – Folge 71 Der Mann, der nicht sterben konnte Russland, 1908: Die Region Tunguska wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschuttert. War es ein au?erirdischer Meteorit? War es eine unbekannte Waffe? Was auch immer es war, es hatte Auswirkungen auf die Anwohner der Region! Denn heute, uber 100 Jahre spater, reist einer von ihnen nach London und sinnt auf Rache … ...
