Resultados para "Sherlock" en Thriller criminal

El Dr. James Mortimer pide ayuda a Sherlock Holmes después de la muerte de su amigo, Sir Charles Baskerville, hallado muerto en su propiedad de Devonshire. A pesar de que la muerte de Charles fue diagnosticada por un ataque al corazón, Mortimer no termina de creérselo, ya que en el rostro del difunto se percibía una expresión de pánico.

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a disappointment in love, and Beachy Head is notorious as a place where the desperate and depressed leap to their deaths. Holmes, however, suspects murder. As he and Watson investigate, they uncover a conspiracy with shocking ramifications.

Tras la desaparición del capitán Morstan, su hija Mary empieza a recibir perlas que tienen un valor incalculable, y no tiene ni idea de quien se las está enviando. Cuando el desconocido benefactor le pide a Mary que se reúna con él, ésta, asustada, solicita ayuda a Sherlock Holmes para que junto con Watson la acompañen a su cita.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year.

In un piovoso pomeriggio di settembre, al 221B di Baker Street due visitatori sottopongono a Sherlock Holmes un caso che sembra sfuggire a ogni approccio razionale. Un uomo chiuso a chiave in una stanza vuota; accanto a questa un'altra stanza, con una scatola di legno sopra un tavolo e una palla da biliardo dentro la scatola. L'uomo, Thomas Kellway, si è dichiarato capace di spostare oggetti con il solo impulso della mente, senza toccarli, e per dimostrarlo doveva estrarre a distanza la palla dalla scatola ricorrendo ai suoi poteri extrasensoriali.

From the moment Dr. John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence, but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood.

Includes "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Redheaded League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".

A Rimini la stagione estiva è al culmine quando l'ispettore Eva Bauer e i suoi colleghi del commissariato Marina si trovano alle prese con un caso inquietante: dal gruppo-vacanze di una parrocchia sono spariti un bambino e sua madre. Le indagini evidenziano una realtà più complessa e feroce del previsto che affonda le radici in vicende accadute molti anni prima. Spettri tornati dal passato stanno avvelenando l’esistenza a una madre di famiglia dalla vita all'apparenza irreprensibile... per questo è fuggita con suo figlio?

Brought together by a mutual friend, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discover that they have much more in common than the fact that they're roommates. As Watson begins assisting Sherlock with his work as a consulting detective, he notices that Sherlock has an uncanny ability to assemble deductions based on seemingly minor details.