The Red-Headed League is the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. Wilson is hired on the basis of the precise hue of his hair color and performs menial work at a ...
In The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes and Watson come to the aid of Helen Stoner, who has reason to fear her life is being threatened by her abusive stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Her sister, who died two years before, spoke of a speckled band right before she died in mysterious circumstances. To solve the mystery of the speckled band, Holmes and Watson stake out Miss Stoner's room and make a momentous discovery. The eig ...
In The Man with the Twisted Lip, Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife whose husband has been absent for several days. Frantic with worry, she seeks help in fetching him home from an opium den. Watson finds his friend Sherlock Holmes in the den, disguised as an old man, trying to extract information about a new case from the addicts therein. The case of double identity and potential murder presents Holmes with a t ...
In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Inspector Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. This is the fourth of the twe ...
Сашка потерял зрение в автокатастрофе. Теперь мир для него лишён красок и света, а сам он не может радоваться жизни: больше не поиграешь в футбол с друзьями, не пойдёшь на занятия в родную школу, не увидишь лица родных… Когда перед глазами лишь тёмное пятно, таким же тёмным кажется и будущее…
Но однажды на помощь мальчику приходит лабрадор по кличке Трисон из школы собак-поводырей. Вместе с ним Сашка учится жить заново, и вскоре на его лице оп ...
7000 vor Christus: Wahrend in Europa erst mit dem Getreideanbau begonnen wird, hat der Nahe Osten bereits einen hohen Stand der Zivilisation erreicht. Der Stamm unter Fuhrung Maestros zieht uber den Irak, Palastina und die Turkei in das Reich Harappa. Starke Regenfalle verursachen Uberschwemmungen und machen die Arbeit der Bauern wird zunichte. Damme und Kanale werden errichtet und es gelingt, die Naturgewalten zu bannen. Statt der bisherigen Ve ...
Auf einer Reise durch die arabische Wuste sto?en Kara Ben Nemsi und Hadschi Halef Omar auf einen geheimnisvollen blinden Seher. Das Buch markiert den Ubergang von der romantischen Erzahlung zu Mays Spatwerk. Besonders eindrucksvoll sind die Visionen vom Jungsten Gericht gestaltet. ...
Things are not looking great for Princess Devin Nile. In the past twenty-four hours, she and her four best friends have gotten kicked out of school, banished to the Hollow Woods, and declared outlaws. (That's what happens when you accuse the headmistress of Royal Academy of being in league with the villains.) But Devin's not about to go down without a fight. Step one: find the famous Red Riding Hood and her vigilante friends for backup ...
Kai, der Kaiserpinguin Durch eisige Kalte saust Oscars Ballon. Er ist am Sudpol! Und naturlich trifft er hier auf jede Menge Pinguine. Kai, der kleine Kaiserpinguin, vertraut Oscar seinen Traum an: Er mochte so gerne fliegen konnen! Wozu hat er denn sonst Flugel? Waghalsig sturzt sich Kai von einem hohen Eisberg um seinen Flugelschlag im Flug zu uben und landet im Meer! Sofort taucht ein Rudel Robben herbei, die ein gutes Essen wittern. Oscar h ...
