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Sherlock Holmes volume 25
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Alex, an advice columnist, believes a young woman named Susan should break up with her violent fiance, who is also pretending to be wealthy to hide his true intentions stemming from his desire to acquire his intended bride's fortune.
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"Tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound. Sir Charles Baskerville, a baronet, is found lying dead among yew trees in the grounds of his seat, Baskerville Hall. The cause of death is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles' nephew and only known heir, Sir Henry Baskerville-who was coming to London from Canada to collect his inheritance-Dr. James Mortimer travels from Devon...
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 1
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Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 4
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Since his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 2
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A beautiful young woman seeks the help of Holmes and Watson when the mysterious benefactor who has been sending her a pearl each year since her father disappeared wants to meet her. Involved are a priceless hoard of Indian treasure and a murderer. whose trademark is "the sing of four.
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 7
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A cipher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale as Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty.
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 24
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At the Pomiero Touring Club, there's been an attempted theft of a Napoleon Excelsior. Though the craft wasn't stolen, it was vandalized: the expensive gems that adorn the side were pried off, but not taken. Why not? Holmes investigates to find out that the late inventor, Philippe Napoleon, had manufactured the vehicles to further his quest to discover an unlimited power source, but was driven to an early grave by the pressures of his business and...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 6
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In seclusion at his remote country estate, radical anti-tech group leader Joseph Openshaw blacks out after opening a mysterious envelope containing only a cryptic note and five orange seeds. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers that the pips are poisoned and that Joseph was targeted because he – along with his brother Elias – had invented a cyber nest that could wipe out all the computers they despise forever. Though the two brothers stopped before...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 7
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Alexander Holder catches his own son Arthur stealing the top secret computer chip that the famous Payne computer dynasty family had entrusted him to safeguard. Why would Holder's son betray him? Did Holder's son betray him? In order to save the situation, Holmes must sift through the motives, secrets and misunderstandings of two families: not only those of Arthur, but those of the 10-year-old genius son, Helfand Payne III, and his father, Helfand...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 21
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A troubled young woman appears at Holmes' door with a mysterious letter containing a beautiful ring, a shuttle ticket to the moon, and an urgent message that she has been done a great wrong and must come at once. Holmes agrees to accompany her to the moon and act as her protector. What they discover there is the answer to a 20-year-old mystery involving two quarrelling brothers (one greedy, the other generous), a valuable Copernican gem mine, Miss...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 9
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After a break in at 10 Downing Street, it appears that the thief was only able to steal one of the African dolls from the Prime Minister's collection, and was not able to find the secret safe where Lord Devlin had hidden the top secret security plans. While Lestrade helps Greyson - who must interrupt his meeting with the famous recluse millionaire Lord Bork – to retrieve the precious doll, Holmes and Watson conduct their own investigation. After...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 23
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Holmes' old friend, Victor Trevor, arrives at Baker Street with an urgent – but nonsensical -note his father left him before vanishing. Holmes quickly deduces that the note is in code and deciphers it to read Gloria Scott. But who is she and what is her role in the affair? While Lestrade and Watson look into a recent prison break, Holmes investigates and finds that their cases are connected, involving a convict breakout on a prison shuttle that...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 25
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A thief has stolen the rusty and ancient Musgrave Sword from the British Museum, leaving priceless jewels and works of art untouched. It is obvious to Sherlock Holmes that the prized sword must have a worth that is not immediately apparent. At the museum gift shop, the Irregulars purchase a cheap souvenir replica of the sword and find that the riddle that is inscribed on it. When Holmes remembers that the sword was forged from a meteor that fell...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 22
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After hearing the normally happy couple argue passionately behind closed doors, followed by a crash and screams, the maid rushes in to discover Nancy Barclay unconscious and her husband, James, gone. Holmes investigates the strange day Nancy had prior to the fight, while Lestrade looks into James' company. Both roads lead to a bio-engineering experiment that's gone horribly wrong: inventor Victor Morris – persuaded to become the experiment's lone...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 11
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After draining the Sussex County Holocomputer System of every drop of data, a cackling vampire-like creature locks himself inside the vault at London First Bank. Beth corners it and blasts open the vault with ionic canon…only to find nothing there! Byte-sucking fiend or computer generated count? Holmes must call on the Irregulars to help track the alleged vampire to its lair…where Moriarty appears, trapping Holmes and the gang. But Beth foils...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 20
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Holmes and Watson arrive at Lestrade's apartment to find it ablaze and Beth out of control! She attacks them both, leaps off of her balcony, and escapes into the night. What has caused her to go crazy? Holmes receives a mysterious Chinese puzzle box while retracing the path of Beth's most recent investigation into an amateur burglary and, shortly thereafter, he too appears to go mad. But in this case, Holmes is cleverly faking insanity to ferret...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 10
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At the insistence of a memo from Lestrade, the Prime Minister contacts Sherlock Holmes when the top secret virtual reality chip, called the Mazarin Chip, is stolen. But the memo is a forgery: a trap to get the Prime Minister and Holmes to Baker Street where Moriarty then descends upon them, trapping Holmes in a virtual prison and kidnapping the Prime Minister. Holmes must escape his virtual prison and discover where Moriarty really is before he...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 2
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When New London is caught in the grip of a massive crime wave, Holmes uses his eyes and intellect to deduce that the heat of the criminal activity lies in the city's long abandoned underground. With the guidance of the street-wise Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes, Watson and Lestrade plunge into the shadowy depths to foil the plot, but lose Watson when their wild escape ends with a train crash into the Thames. Only then does Holmes realize that the...
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