En patient rymmer från Sundby mentalsjukhus under stor dramatik. För att undkomma sina förföljare springer han ut på Strängnäsfjärdens is och försvinner i snöstormen. När snön lagt ...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being publ ...

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once ...

A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems ...

A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor—to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his ...

When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn’t possibly imagine where the solutio ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from ...

Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the case ...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literar ...

Horatio Leavenworth, Esq., a millionaire, is murdered in his library while he is engaged in reviewing a book he plans to publish. He was shot cleanly in the back of the head (with ...

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gw ...

In "The House in the Mist," weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behi ...

On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison ...

The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the pl ...

Allan Pinkerton), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events a ...

Nominerad till Augustpriset 2014 Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna föds som den sista i en släkt av alkemister i slutet på 1700-talet och växer upp på gården Hermestorp, där den ständiga ...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is based on the supposedly real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton age ...

Tyskland 1945. En väska smugglas ut från det svårt krigssargade Berlin med hemlig kurir. Innehållet i väskan har kraft nog att ändra maktbalansen i hela norra Europa, och den unge ...

Sherlock Holmes Bragder innehåller några av Arthur Conan Doyles mest kända Sherlock Holmes-historier: De Fem Apelsinkärnorna Det Hemlighetsfulla Brevet samt Den Musgraveska familje ...

Hasse sänker gripklon över timmertraven och ska precis lyfta upp stockarna, när han ser en svart skugga. Han tittar närmare och inser snabbt att det är en människa som ligger där. ...

Det ser ut att bli en fin dag på Saluddens camping. Himlen är djupblå och gräset underbart grönt. Ändå är någonting helt fel. Igår var allt som vanligt; glada röster, osande grilla ...

I Wyoming kan en liten flicka se folks mörkaste hemligheter genom att studera deras kroppsspråk. I New York genomskådar en ung man de mönster som styr aktiemarknaden och hinner tjä ...

En kvav sommarnatt hittas den svenske ambassadörens son, Oscar Rieder, död inne på den svenska ambassaden i Moskva. Bredvid honom ligger en svårt skadad prostituerad, som mot alla ...

Färglösa kommun må vara liten och okänd, men kompenserar väl genom fullständigt galna kommunalråd och absurda visioner. Sanningen är att kommunen håller på att gå i konkurs och att ...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The twelve stories (eleven in American editions) of t ...