Arthur Conan Doyle

'He is the Napoleon of Crime... He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ...

'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ... When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published The Coming of the Fairies in 1922. Doyle's book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence. This quirky and fascinating book allows us to get inside the mind of an intelligent, highly respected man who happened to believe in fairies. John M. Lynch's introduction to this Bison Books edition provides the background to appreciate Doyle's claims and, without supporting the existence of fairies, to understand why Doyle wanted them to exist. The photographs of the fairies are reproduced in their entirety, with the original captions, offering readers an opportunity to examine Doyle's and his supporters' claims to their authenticity.

German Police organisation including the Gestapo, SD and SiPo plus colour uniform plates and colour document plates. This book should be consulted together with two other document books now reprinted by Naval and Military Press: Identity Documents in Germany and Identity Documents in Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Med Sherlock Holmes som skarpsinnig vägledare får vi följa med honom och Dr Watson på våldsamma nattliga jakter med ångslup på Themsen. Handlingen utspelar sig i London vid förra sekelskiftet, på den tiden när det fortfarande fanns gigantiska gömda skatter som vaktades av mystiska figurer och där undersköna damers heder måste försvaras. Holmes löser på sitt oefterhärmliga sätt det komplicerade med den fantastiska Agraskatten. Här finns allt man kan begära av en äventyrsberättelse som med rätta blivit både stilbildande och klassisk. Athur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) var läkare men kom under 1880-talet att alltmer glida över till författandet. Han fick snart ett fantastiskt genomslag med sin Sherlock Holmes-figur som kom att bli huvudperson i ett 60-tal noveller och fyra romaner. Tomas Löfdahl har bearbetat och läst in boken och försett den med ljudillustrationer för att förstärka stämningen. Speltid 3 timmar 55 minuter. Spår ca var femte minut.