Hugh Greene Bücher

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY. The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police, and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle shed fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian age. All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion - a rare treat!

»Der scharlachrote Faden des Mordes durchzieht die farblose Oberfläche des Lebens, und unsere Pflicht besteht darin, ihn zu finden und zu isolieren und auf ganzer Länge bloßzulegen.« Das erste Abenteuer von Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson, der den »beratenden Detektiv« ruft, um einen rätselhaften Mord aufzuklären: ein scheinbar unverletzter Toter mit einer Schreckensgrimasse, eine Losung als Blutspur an der Wand: »Rache« … Andere Detektive haben Fälle, Sherlock Holmes erlebt Abenteuer - entdecken Sie sie neu in der großartigen Übersetzung von Henning Ahrens.

This work contains the following stories: Max Pemberton: 'The Ripening Rubies' Arthur Morrison: 'The Case of Laker, Absconded' Guy Boothby: 'The Dutchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds' Arthur Morrison: 'The Affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Ltd"' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Assyrian Rejuvenator' L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: 'Madame Sara' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Submarine Boat' William Le Queux: 'The Secret of the Fox Hunter' Baroness Orczy: 'The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway' R. Austin Freeman: 'The Moabite Cipher' Baroness Orczy: 'The Woman in the Big Hat' William Hope Hodgson: 'The Horse of the Invisible' Ernest Bramah: 'The Game Played in the Dark'