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  • The Torso At Highgate Cemetery and other Sherlock Holmes Stories
    Tim Symonds
    Six more tales of Sherlock Holmes... ’The Torso At Highgate Cemetery’ I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade’s face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim. ’The Mystery Of the Missing Artefacts’ August 1916. A telegram is brought to my fetid prison cell under the magnificent State rooms of S...
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    18,57 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Strange Death of Brigadier-General Delves
    Tim Symonds
    It’s 1898. Kismet brings about a chance reunion at a London club between Dr. Watson and Colonel 'Maiwand Mike' Fenlon, former military comrades from their Northwest Frontier days and the desperate Battle of Maiwand. A week later an urgent cable seeking Sherlock Holmes’s help arrives from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency 30 miles off the coast of Normandy. A...
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  • A Most Diabolical Plot - Six Compelling Sherlock Holmes Cases
    Tim Symonds
    In the year 1903 – the exact moment is now lost to history - Sherlock Holmes proclaimed to the world he was quitting England’s Capital to go into retirement on a small, wind-swept farm in the Sussex South Downs. His shocked comrade-in-arms Dr. John H. Watson was later to write, ‘The decision took me utterly by surprise.  I thought I had become an institution around Holmes, like...
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    16,20 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Nine-Dragon Sigil
    Tim Symonds
    It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a plot exists and if so, foil it.  But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor o...
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    20,74 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman
    Tim Symonds
    It’s 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast territories, menacing England’s vital overland routes to her Indian possessions. At his medical practice in London’s Marylebon...
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    18,50 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle
    Tim Symonds
    In ’Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle’ the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex and Kent countryside in 1904. None of the earlier stories chronicling the adventures of Sherlock Holmes compares to the strange ci...
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    18,35 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter
    Tim Symonds
    The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson it seems a very humdrum commission - but who is the mysterious ’Lieserl’? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal Patents Office in Berne by the name of Albert Einstein? The assignment ...
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    18,61 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Bulgarian Codex
    Tim Symonds
    It’s the year 1900. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive an urgent commission from the Prince Regnant of Bulgaria to come to Sofia. The Codex Zographensis, the most ancient and most sacred manuscript in the Old Bulgarian language has been stolen. Its disappearance could lead to the outbreak of war between Russia, Austro-Hungary and the Ottomans, three ageing empires disintegr...
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    16,12 €