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    One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min
    Six more cases solved by Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Hilton Cubitt, from Derbyshire, consults Holmes about a series of dancing men picture-messages his wife is receiving. On their wedding-day, she had made Cubitt promise he would ask her nothing about her past, but she now seems to be terrified. Holmes has to decipher the code of the matchstick men and get to the bottom of the dreadful murder that lies behind it. The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist: Sherlock Holmes first regards the experiences related by newly arrived visitor Violet Smith with a degree of impatience and disinterest. This solitary cyclist, however, is being shadowed by a mysterious man on a bicycle as she travels to and from her new employer's home as a music teacher. The Adventure of the Priory School: In desperation, Holmes is asked to rescue the kidnapped only son of the Duke of Holdernesse. The Adventure of Black Peter: Dr. Watson's account of the strange death of Captain Peter Carey begins one morning with Holmes returning to Baker Street with a "huge barbed-headed spear tucked like an umbrella under his arm." The instrument, the facts unfold, duplicates the weapon that has been driven so violently through the victim's body that it has been discovered pinned to the wall like an insect. The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton: Holmes and Watson push the limits of the law when they confront the machinations of a blackmailer whose victims either pay dearly or suffer life-destroying humiliation. The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: The destruction of duplicate plaster casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French sculptor Devine becomes more than a mere curiosity to Holmes when a murder is committed during the commission of one of the crimes. The case begins at the shop of Morse Hudson, who sells pictures and statues in the Kennington Road. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000032/bk_onvo_000032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 274min
    Six more cases solved by Sherlock Holmes: The Resident Patient: When a Russian father and son disappear during a consultation with a doctor, Holmes is called in to find out why the doctor's benefactor is now the most frightened man in town. The Greek Interpreter: In this adventure, we are at last introduced to Sherlock Holmes' brother, Mycroft, the only relative of whom Watson's friend has ever openly spoken during their long assocation. Mycroft, says Sherlock Holmes, is Sherlock's superior in intelligence and observation but cannot put the gifts to practical use. They stroll to the singular accommodations of the Diogenes Club, and as Dr. Watson becomes acquainted with the elder Holmes, Mycroft introduces them to a Grecian interpreter. The Naval Treaty: Holmes must recover a stolen document, prevent a diplomatic crisis between England and Italy, and save the career of a young and rising diplomat. The Final Problem: Sherlock Holmes' determination to destroy the powerful criminal organization of Professor Moriarty reaches its crisis as Holmes and Watson attempt to track down and finally apprehend the criminal genius behind the most foul and evil events plaguing the good people of England. The Adventure of the Empty House: While still grieving over his great friend's death, Watson is stunned, relieved and joyful when Holmes suddenly appears and reveals that he has escaped an untimely end in that fatal struggle with his mortal enemy, Moriarty, at Reichenbach Falls. The criminal underworld suspects this, says Holmes, and Watson is drawn anew into Holmes's plot to deceive his enemies and foil a probable attempt upon his life. The Adventure of the Norwood Builder: Young John McFarland is accused of the violent murder of a man who has just left all his worldly goods to the accused in his will. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000031/bk_onvo_000031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min
    A Scandal In Bohemia: Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to recover blackmail evidence, held by the woman whom the king once promised to marry, but who was abandoned for a woman of noble birth. "The Red-Headed League": Holmes (and Doyle) pull out all the stops in this classic story. Of all the many excellent tales of Sherlock Holmes, this must rate amongst the most perplexing of them all. Why would a pawnbroker have to copy out in long-hand the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, word for word, and what bearing can the knees of a man's trousers have on the case? "A Case of Identity": Miss Mary Sutherland, angry and beside herself with feelings of loss, asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the sudden, mysterious disappearance of a shy and attentive man she has grown to love, upon the very day they were to be married. "The Boscombe Valley Mystery": Holmes is brought into the investigation of what appears to be a simple, obvious case of a son murdering his father, shortly after the son was seen by witnesses near, and at, the scene of the man's death. "The Five Orange Pips": A young man comes to Holmes for help, fearing that the unknown forces that have brought about the deaths of his uncle and father will soon visit him as well. "The Man with the Twisted Lip": Holmes' search for Neville St. Clair has led him to the opium dens of Upper Swandam Lane, where the "disappearance" of many souls in this vile alley is a sobering fact of life. St. Clair's distraught wife has seen him there in one of the dens, but he has vanished just as suddenly. With no body, seemingly deprived of sufficient evidence, and bereft of insight, Holmes appears unable to solve the case. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000028/bk_onvo_000028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 301min
    Seven more cases solved by Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow: "Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow" takes us to the beginnings of World War I and opens with a clandestined meeting between agents of the German Empire The Adventure of the Illustrious Client: Holmes is retained by a mysterious client, through an intermediary, to rescue the daughter of a titled man from the clutches of a murderous but charismatic criminal, who seems to have irretrievably won her heart. The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier: When a young man's recent comrade-in-arms becomes strangely inaccessible, Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid. But the more deeply the detective investigates the missing man's whereabouts, the more adamant become the measures of his immediate family to block all attempts to communicate with the soldier's friend. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone: In this entry from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the master detective is on the trail of the stolen crown jewel known as the Mazarin Stone. Knowing his activity on the case makes him a target for murder, Sherlock Holmes prepares a ruse to smoke out the suspected thief. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire: "This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply." So says Sherlock Holmes at the opening of this story. Holmes investigates what appears to be a case of vampirism in an upper class home. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs: A perplexing mystery involves the search for three men with the surname Garrideb in order to claim an eccentric American's $15 million estate. The Problem of Thor Bridge: A love triangle culminates in the shooting death of the wife and murder charges against the household's beautiful governess. The arrogant, combative husband seeks the services of Sherlock Holmes to clear the young lady in question. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000035/bk_onvo_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 168min
    Five more cases solved by Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Creeping Man: The strange behavior of a family dog towards its master brings Holmes into a case involving the increasingly odd and disturbing behavior of the man himself, a respected professor. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane: The story opens in Sussex in the summer of 1907 as the detective is enjoying his retirement by the seaside. As Holmes and his good friend Harold Stackhurst exchange warm greetings on this July morning, a well-known science master, Fitzroy McPherson, suddenly staggers up from the beach and collapses. Within minutes he is dead, his body savagely raked by livid "lashing" marks, such as those inflicted by a wire scourge. His dying words, "the lion's mane", begin Holmes' search for the savage, merciless killer. The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger: Sherlock Holmes is summoned by a woman whose face, years before, was horribly disfigured during an attack by a circus lion. Upon his arrival with Watson, the woman, her face perpetually hidden by a heavy veil, tells them she knows she does not have long to live and wishes to finally reveal what really happened on that awful day. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place: Evidence of murder, ransacked ancient mummies, giving away a beloved dog, and a horse race upon which a man's life and future depend are just four of the elements of this Holmes story, making it one of the most memorable (and chilling) cases in the Holmesian canon. The Adventure of the Retired Colourman: Sherlock Holmes begins to suspect there is more to the story of a depressed, pathetic client, sent to Holmes by Scotland Yard, than the man would have anyone know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000036/bk_onvo_000036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Arabian Nights - Selected Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min
    Like Scheherazade, Stevenson, the consummate storyteller is at the peak of his craft. Who can resist the charm of the medieval romance in "The Sire de Maletroit's Door", the strangely enigmatic rogue Villon of "A Lodging for the Night", or the sheer delight of "Providence and the Guitar"? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Woods. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbk/000381/bk_adbk_000381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Great Gatsby
    With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'.Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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    Pride and Prejudice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 762min
    One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775 -1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now regarded as one of the principal treasures of the English language. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080083/bk_acx0_080083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shamrock Season: A Romance  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min, (USK 18)
    Consummate journalist Maggie Devlin has a rule: never get involved with the men she interviews. It's never been an issue and shouldn't be one this time around; her subject, the egotistical filmmaker George MacDonagh, holds zero appeal for her. But on-site in misty, magical County Cork, the faeries can bewitch even the most level-headed of women.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Johansson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025891/bk_adbl_025891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bride of Thunder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 945min
    Sold to settle her husband's gambling debts, kidnapped... betrayed... and promised to the Mayan gods as their sacrificial bride. Texas-born beauty Mercy Cameron pursued one recklessly romantic dream - to be desired in all ways by the man who bought her as a bondswoman - to discover in his arms the depth of ecstasy and the consummate crest of love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Faulkner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001255/bk_bimo_001255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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