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Die vierte Tür des "Sherlock Holmes-Adventkalenders": Während der Fahrt mit dem Orient-Express ergeben sich für Holmes und Watson interessante Bekanntschaften. Als der Zug in einer Schneewehe steckenbleibt, geschieht ein Verbrechen.

Sherlock Holmes-Adventkalender 1 (Ein Inspektor kommt): Es ist Adventzeit in der Baker Street. Doch Watsons Weihnachtspläne werden rasch durchkreuzt, als Inspektor Lestrade mit einem merkwürdigen Auftrag für Holmes erscheint.

Kurz vor Weihnachten wird Sherlock Holmes mit einem Erpressungsfall konfrontiert, Der Geldverleiher Jacob Marley soll 10,000 Pfund bezahlen - widrigenfalls droht der Täter mit Konsequenzen, Holmes und Watson nehmen die Spur auf.

Sherlock Holmes-Adventkalender 22 (Der Bund des Bösen): Holmes und Watson stehen dicht vor der Aufklärung des Falls. Als sie jedoch den mutmaßlichen Täter mit ihren Beweisen konfrontieren wollen, erleben sie eine unangenehme Überraschung.

Ein ehemaliger Studienkollege von Dr. Watson hat offenbar den Verstand verloren: Er behauptet, eine Maschine zur Reise durch die Zeit erfunden zu haben und bereits in der Zukunft gewesen zu sein. Als Beweis legt er ein paar unbekannte Blumen aus dem Jahr 802.701 vor. Watson ist irritiert und macht sich Sorgen, weshalb er Sherlock Holmes hinzuzieht.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Inspektor Lestrade zu einem Fall am Court Theatre hinzugezogen: Ein prominenter Schauspieler der Londoner Shakespeare-Gesellschaft wurde nach einer Probe leblos auf der Bühne gefunden.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Scotland Yard um Hilfe gebeten: In einem Londoner Nobellokal wurde der Chefkoch ermordet. Wirklich irritierend ist allerdings die Vorgehensweise des Täters, die an Perfidie und Grausamkeit kaum zu überbieten ist.

An elderly farmer learns the horrifying truth beyond the phrase “True love never dies”. Something sinister lurks behind the distant eyes of a mother’s traumatized son. And a gravedigger slowly descends into madness, as he grows obsessed with the corpse of a little girl.... Scare Street’s latest collection shines a flickering candle on the terrifying forces of darkness that haunt our dreams. Death, madness, obsession.... The darker side of the human psyche is revealed with each bone-chilling chapter of these 14 macabre tales.

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period. The debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments between politicians, interest groups, newspapers, and a broader electorate.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. - Proverbs 31:10...

You woke up with a broken smile and a twisted face. The Bell’s Book is a quick essential guide to getting through this rough but mostly temporary ordeal. You’ll receive invaluable insight from someone who experienced Bell's palsy firsthand and then used his expert research skills to find his way through this mysterious disorder.

A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries, read by some of Britain's most renowned actors. Humorous and whimsical verse are collated together in these timeless readings of poetry from our funniest writers. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Imogen Stubbs; Tim Pigott-Smith; Peter Orr; Wendy Hillier.

The Darkest Year focuses on Americans’ state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behavior. William K. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture, including shifts in family roles, race relations, economic pursuits, popular entertainment, education, and the arts.

Who's on First? - On a team where the first baseman's named Who, the second baseman's named What, Idon'tKnow is on third, a woman finds it difficult to make her husband understand that the answer to his question, "Who's on first?" is Who. This work could also be called "The Relationship" because there is not a couple alive that has not had a discussion or three like this. Enjoy!

A wonderful selection of classic Christmas poetry from G. K. Chesterton, Henry Vaughan, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Tennyson, and many more.

A selection of ghost stories which make your blood run cold.

Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year - but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us, this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet: it's acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for material wares.

Simon Cliffe reads some of the greatest Christmas poems for the 12 days of Christmas. Day 1 - Merry Christmas by Louise May Alcott. Day 2 - Christ's Nativity by Henry Vaughan. Day 3 - Ceremonies for Christmas by Robert Herrick. Day 4 - New Prince, New Pomp by Robert Southwell. Day 5 - Christmas Cheer by Thomas Tusser. Day 6 - Ring Out, Wild Bells by Lor Alfred Tennyson. Day 7 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy. Day 8 - Nativity by John Donne. Day 9 - A Christmas Carol by G.K. Chesterton.

A cyber-dystopian thriller unlike any other. In a near-future Tokyo, every action - from blinking to sexual intercourse - is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.

In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Rashana Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he's depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.