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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

The Adventure of the Red Circle

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

His Last Bow – An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes

One of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently. FROM THE PUBLISHER The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” that Corleone first appears. As Corleone’s desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel.

Ein Fischer verschwindet vor Peru, spurlos. Цlbohrexperten stoЯen in der norwegischen See auf merkwьrdige Organismen, die hunderte Quadratkilometer Meeresboden in Besitz genommen haben. Wдhrenddessen geht mit den Walen entlang der Kьste British Columbias eine unheimliche Verдnderung vor. Nichts von alledem scheint miteinander in Zusammenhang zu stehen. Doch Sigur Johanson, norwegischer Biologe und Schцngeist, glaubt nicht an Zufдlle. Auch der indianische Walforscher Leon Anawak gelangt zu einer beunruhigenden Erkenntnis: Eine Katastrophe bahnt sich an. Doch wer oder was lцst sie aus? Wдhrend die Welt an den Abgrund gerдt, kommen die Wissenschaftler zusammen mit der britischen Journalistin Karen Weaver einer ungeheuerlichen Wahrheit auf die Spur.