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Als die Londoner Polizei eine Leiche aus der Themse zieht, sind Identität und Hintergründe zunächst unklar. Sherlock Holmes findet jedoch einen Zusammenhang mit einer überaus prominenten Baustelle flussaufwärts.

As a tour guide, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if uneventful life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of a peasant in Rome. The woman, he gradually learns, was his family's beloved servant many years ago before, in his native town of Ruffano. Fabbio returns to his birthplace, and finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, who was shot down in flames during the war.

Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents. Their father is a flamboyant singer and their mother is a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts.

The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow. Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed.

The Problem of Thor Bridge is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine. Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated his wife very badly.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson's shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor's house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and was published in 1904. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers". He demands £7,000 (over £800,000 in 2015) for the letters, which if given to third parties would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is The Five Orange Pips, part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original title was The Dancing Men, when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

Guy de Maupassant gilt als Aushängeschild weltliterarischer Novellenkunst. Seine Erzählungen erfrischen uns nach wie vor durch deren Natürlichkeit, schlichter Eleganz und Bodenständigkeit. Erfreut und amüsiert genießen wir diese kleinen Zeitreisen, welche einen genüsslichen Einblick in die bürgerliche Lebenswirklichkeit der französischen Gesellschaft des 19ten Jahrhunderts gewähren. Auf diesem Hörbuch befinden sich folgende vier Erzählungen: Angeführt erzählt von einem alten Haudegen, der die jüngere Generation davor warnt, sich zu blauäugig mit verheirateten Frauen einzulassen.

Guy de Maupassant gilt als Aushängeschild weltliterarischer Novellenkunst. Seine Erzählungen erfrischen uns nach wie vor durch deren Natürlichkeit, schlichter Eleganz und Bodenständigkeit. Erfreut und amüsiert genießen wir diese kleinen Zeitreisen, welche einen genüsslichen Einblick in die bürgerliche Lebenswirklichkeit der französischen Gesellschaft des 19ten Jahrhunderts gewähren. Auf diesem Hörbuch befinden sich folgende vier Erzählungen: Eine Beichte berichtet von einem Ehemann, der seine Frau verdächtigt ihn zu hintergehen.

Edgar Allan Poe gilt als Ikone der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte und Mitbegründer dieser literarischen Gattung. Die Elemente des Mysteriösen, Phantastischen, Unbegreiflichen, Grotesken, Rätselhaften, Transzendentalen schwingen immer als subtiles Klanggebilde in seine Erzählungen mit und regen aufgeschlossene Gemüter zum Nachdenken über all die unzähligen Dinge, die wir nicht imstande sind auch nur annähernd zu erklären, wohltuend an.

Agatha Christie is recognized throughout the world as the writer of remarkable country house mysteries and ingenious murders set in faraway countries. Yet many of her books and stories were set in the city she new best and for many years called home: London. From Poirot's flat in Whitehaven Mansions to Scotland Yard, the Old Bailey to Harley Street, Lyons Tea Rooms to the Savoy, Paddington Station to the London Underground, Agatha Christie knew and loved London, and mined it for its rich seam of storytelling opportunities.

Die weltberühmten Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes (Band 4): London, Ende der 1890 Jahre. Sherlock Holmes, dem weit über London hinaus der Ruf eines wahren Meisterdetektivs vorauseilt, löst zusammen mit seinem Freund und Partner, dem jungen Dr. Watson, einen kniffligen Fall nach dem anderen. Zusammen bewohnen sie die Baker Street 221 B. Für das leibliche Wohl der beiden Junggesellen sorgt ihre Haushälterin, die gute alte Mrs. Hudson. Holmes agiert hauptsächlich in London.

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 9 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including James Joyce; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; W.B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; and more.

Die weltberühmten Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes (Band 5): London, Ende der 1890 Jahre. Sherlock Holmes, dem weit über London hinaus der Ruf eines wahren Meisterdetektivs vorauseilt, löst zusammen mit seinem Freund und Partner, dem jungen Dr. Watson, einen kniffligen Fall nach dem anderen. Zusammen bewohnen sie die Baker Street 221 B. Für das leibliche Wohl der beiden Junggesellen sorgt ihre Haushälterin, die gute alte Mrs. Hudson.

宇治の八の宮亡きあと、妹・中の君は匂宮と結ばれるが、姉・大君は薫の求愛を拒み続け亡くなってしまう。薫は大君によく似た異母兄妹の浮舟を知り、惹かれていく。「総角」から「東屋」までを収録。

夕顔の忘れ形見、玉鬘をめぐる、恋の駆け引き。揺るぎない地位を築いた光源氏の苦悩と迷い――人間ドラマを描く筆が冴えわたる巻！