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When a corpse turns up in an empty Brixton house with a single word scrawled in blood on the wall, the police are baffled. Newly arrived in London and short…
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On the fog-bound moor of Devonshire stands Baskerville Hall, and over the family that owns it hangs an old curse: a phantom hound with blazing eyes and dripping jaws that…
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Twelve of the finest cases ever laid before 221B Baker Street, collected together for the first time. A king's indiscretion, a stolen gem hidden in a goose, a bride who…
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A pearl arrives in the post for Miss Mary Morstan every year, sent by an unknown benefactor, along with a note asking to meet. When she finally does, at Sherlock…
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When young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote castle in the Carpathians to finalize a property deal, he finds his host courteous, cultured, and utterly inhuman. By the time…
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Deep in an unmapped corner of Africa, beyond swamps and desert and a lost civilization's ruins, rules a veiled queen who has waited two thousand years for her dead lover…
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Hunter and trader Allan Quatermain is hired to find a missing man who vanished searching for the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon, somewhere beyond a range of mountains no…
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Betrayed by his first wife, King Shahryar resolves to marry a new bride each night and have her executed by dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad volunteers herself and begins…
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Shahrazad's nightly reprieve continues in this second volume of Burton's landmark translation, as her tales grow ever more elaborate: voyages to islands that turn out to be sleeping sea monsters,…