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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...

"Originally published in 1914 'The Valley of Fear' is the fourth and final novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After decoding a cipher warning from Moriarty's organization for "Douglas" in "Birlstone", Holmes arrives to discover that a corpse is already there." --P. [4] of cover.

"Vif, audacieux, impertinent, rossant sans arrêt le commissaire (qui ici, en l'occurrence, s'appelle l'inspecteur Ganimard), traînant les cœurs après lui et mettant les rieurs de son côté, se moquant des situations acquises, ridiculisant les bourgeois, portant secours aux faibles, Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur est un Robin des Bois de la « Belle Époque ». Un Robin des Bois bien français : il ne se prend pas trop au sérieux, ses armes...

At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of English silent-film megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte's latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, but when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell senses ominous currents of trouble. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves...

Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. But what of the other person to whom she has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson's son. And though what he tells Russell cannot possibly be true, she believes him--as surely as she believes the threat...

The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series from celebrated author Laurie K. King, A Letter of Mary.

It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript which seems

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Une édition de référence d'Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès de Maurice Leblanc, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « — Sholmès? Oh! j'avoue que celui-ci est de taille. Mais c'est justement ce qui me passionne et ce pour quoi vous me voyez de si joyeuse humeur. D'abord, question d'amour-propre: on juge que ce n'est pas de trop du célèbre Anglais pour avoir raison de moi. Ensuite, pensez au plaisir que...

It's 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II is on the verge of imploding. Rival great powers, especially Kaiser WIlhelm's German, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast terrirories, menacing England's vital overland routes to her India possessions. At his medical practice in London's Marylebone, Watson receives a mystifying telegram. It's from Holmes. "Dear Watson,...

"A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country's long-lost provinces, single-handedly...