Arthur Conan Doyle
421) Sherlock Holmes
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English
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Three episodes of the series The new adventures of Sherlock Holmes from 1954-1955.
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English
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Sherlock Holmes pursues his archenemy Professor James Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Meanwhile, Holmes enjoys a blossoming romance with Irene Adler, who becomes the target of a kidnapping by Moriarty.
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English
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The woman in green: The clues left at the scene of the crime point a finger at a prominent member of Parliament, but Holmes believes there's something a bit odd going on and perhaps his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty might somehow be involved!
Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon: Sherlock Holmes must battle the Nazis and protect Her Majesty's latest secret weapon, a state of the art bomb sight.
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English
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Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this second thrilling collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published.
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English
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"Stories of the end of civilized life have always fascinated us, from the mythological world endings, Armageddon to Ragnorok, to the flood stories of across the Ancient world. They make us wonder what we would do if all around us came to an end: no transport, no fuel, no communications: a retreat into the desperation, the onslaught of disease, how would we survive? This is the source of zombie literature and provides the inspiration for this fabulous...
430) Terror by night
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English
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Sherlock Holmes mystery involving the theft of a precious gem and murder aboard a train bound from London to Edinburgh. Holmes unravels a complicated scheme based on false identities and murder performed with poison darts.
433) Christmas classics
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Graphic classics volume 19
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English
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"Ghosts, cowboys & killer dolls! Seven classic stories and poems to make your holiday season brighter" -- p. [4] of cover.
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a...
435) Cuentos de Navidad
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Español
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"Existen pocas fiestas tan populares como la Navidad, cuyas tradiciones más arraigadas, como cantar villancicos o hacerse regalos, datan de la época victoriana. A la estela del famoso "Cuento de Navidad" de Charles Dickens eclosionó todo un subjénero literario, y numerosos autores de lenguas y géneros distintos, entre ellos Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Riddell, Artuhur Conan Doyle o Emilia Pardo Bazán, se inspiraron...
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A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors
Suspense and horror
1 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - Arthur Conan Doyle
2 The Signalman - Charles Dickens
3 Lost Hearts - MR James
4 The Sealed Room - Arthur Conan Doyle.
5 Mrs Badgery - Wilkie Collins
6 Wailing Well - MR James
7 The Open Window - Saki
8 How it happened - Arthur Conan Doyle
9 The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan
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Español
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"Los cuentos de terror nos han acompañado desde la noche de los tiempos. Con el paso de los años, el cuento de miedo creó arquetipos y forjó un lenguaje narrativo común que desembocó en la auténtica edad de oro del género que fue el siglo XIX. Tuvieron que llegar grandes maestros como H. P. Lovecraft para que el paradigma cambiase, pero el fondo siempre era el mismo: el miedo a lo desconocido. En esta selección encontramos 18 relatos, testimonios...
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English
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Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence - a flicker in the corner of the eye, a shadow in a darkened hallway, a hand pressed against the window, or a figure at the end of the bed. Sometimes they are a malevolent warning, or they come seeking revenge, or as a horrible reminder of past misdeeds. But ghosts can visit on the brightest summer's day, or on a lonely stretch of beach,...