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!

Dieser Klassiker von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, der als Begründer der Gattung der Detektivgeschichte in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist, schildert den ersten gemeinsamen Fall des legendären Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes und seines Gehilfen Dr. Watson. Der Amerikaner Enoch Drebber wird ermordet aufgefunden - über seiner Leiche steht in blutigen Lettern das Wort 'Rache' an die Wand geschrieben. Holmes und sein treuer Begleiter Watson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und verblüffen mit ihrem analytischen Verstand, ihrer genauen Beobachtungsgabe und ihren unkonventionellen Methoden.

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'