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The Sign of the Four: Revised Edition Of Original Version (Sherlock Holmes #2)
by Arthur Conan DoyleHolmes and Watson unravel a mystery so exotic it stretches to the very ends of the British Empire After months without a case, the world&’s greatest detective is aimless, his only stimulation the daily injection of his drug of choice. &“Which is it to-day?&” asks a disapproving Watson—&“morphine or cocaine?&” For a mind as finely tuned as Holmes&’s, the dull routine of existence will not suffice. Thankfully for Holmes&’s health and Watson&’s anxiety levels, a beautiful young woman soon calls at 221B Baker Street. Ten years ago, Mary Morstan&’s father, a captain of the 34th Bombay Infantry, disappeared from a London hotel. Four years thereafter, Mary began to receive large, lustrous pearls in the mail—one per year, always delivered on May 4. Now, six pearls later, Mary is finally about to meet her anonymous benefactor and asks Holmes and Watson to accompany her for safety&’s sake. The crime they uncover—in which a royal treasure, a diabolical double cross, and a man-eating crocodile all play a part—is one of the most thrilling tales Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, and a crucial chapter in the Sherlock Holmes saga. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
The Sign of the Four
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSeveral years after the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary Morstan discovers an advertisement in a local paper requesting her own address. Her employer advises her to reveal it, and when she does she receives a valuable pearl by post. Presented with these facts and little else, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel a mystery involving stolen treasure, political rebellion, India, and a pact made by four convicts, in Arthur Conan Doyle s second Sherlock Holmes novel.
The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes Book #2)
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleA new client, Mary Morstan, engages Sherlock Holmes' services to solve two mysteries: the disappearance of her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, and her receipt of one perfect pearl in the mail each year since answering a newspaper advertisement. But when Holmes' investigation reveals a priceless treasure, the stakes are raised and murder becomes the focus of his inquiry. The second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, The Sign of the Four introduces Mary Marston, Watson's future wife.
The Sign of the Green Falcon
by Cynthia HarnettAs apprentice to Dick Whittington, Mayor of London, Dickon finds himself unwittingly involved in a plot against King Henry V.
The Sign of the Raven (Ash & Juliana #2)
by L.C. SharpFrom glittering ballrooms to London&’s dark underbelly, Ash & Juliana are back on the hunt for a murderer in the second installment of this thrilling historical mystery series from L.C. Sharp.The London ton protect their own. Even when it comes to murder. &“There&’s been an incident.&”In the finer circles of 1749 London, incident is apparently the polite way to describe discovering a body with a gruesome wound and no sign of the killer. But for newlyweds Lady Juliana and Sir Edmund &“Ash&” Ashendon, it&’s a chance to track down the culprit and right a wrong—something they are both intimately familiar with.Indeed, it is the only thing they are intimately familiar with. For the moment.Though their marriage may be one of convenience, there&’s nothing convenient about learning the victim has ties to a name from their past: the dreaded Raven. And the Raven isn&’t the only danger they face. The aristocracy protects its own, and in London&’s darkest corners, no one wants to be unmasked.With Juliana&’s life on the line, time is running out for Ash to find the killer before their marriage comes to an inconveniently bloody end.Ash & JulianaBook 1: The Wedding Night AffairBook 2: The Sign of the Raven
The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer
by Brad StricklandLewis's hopes for a peaceful summer vacation are shattered as one accident after another plagues him. Is all his bad luck really just a coincidence? Or does it have something to do with the mysterious hooded figure he keeps seeing?
The Sign Of The Twisted Candles: The Sign Of The Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
by Carolyn KeeneAnother exciting mystery begins for the young detective when her friends Bess and George ask her to investigate a rumor that their wealthy great-granduncle, Asa Sidney, is virtually a prisoner in his own mansion. But solving the mystery and befriending Carol Wipple, the sixteen-year-old foster daughter of the caretakers of the old mansion, nearly costs Nancy the friendship of Bess and George. It takes all of Nancy's sleuthing ability as well as diplomacy to save it.Nancy braves one danger after another to bring to justice the swindlers who are stealing Asa Sidney's fortune. With only the sign of the twisted candles to guide her, Nancy uncovers hidden treasure and an amazing letter that ends a family feud and brings unexpected happiness to Carol.
The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
by Carolyn KeeneWhile solving the mystery of an old man's disappearing fortune, Nancy ends a family feud and reveals the identity of an orphan of unknown parentage. In the late 1950s, the first 34 Nancy Drew books were revised and condensed. This is the original version from the 1930s.
The Sign Painter's Secret: The Story Of A Revolutionary Girl
by Dorothy Hoobler Thomas HooblerWhen the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie MacDougal finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge.
Signal Intruder
by Robert TralinsThe circuit board, using photons instead of electrical current, was the most dramatic leap forward Silicon Valley had seen in years. Now, the prototype was missing and at least one man was dead. If the board was placed in the guidance system of a missile, the weapon could be targeted with pinpoint accuracy, and it was clear that the people who had stolen it were planning to do just that. A security setup backed by the most advanced equipment the experts could develop had been breached and Jack Lund, chief of security for the MWD Group, had to find out who and how ... and fast! He didn't have too much trouble getting started, but suddenly a faceless enemy with lots of firepower and the ability to strike at unheard of distances seemed to know everything he was going to do before he did. Somehow, it seemed that they were turning his own state-of-the-art technology against him. That put them one step ahead ... and waiting.
Signal Loss (A Hal Challis Investigation #7)
by Garry DisherThe Ned Kelly Award-winning master of Australian noir shows us the darker side of the Peninsula. A meth-related crime has Inspector Hal Challis on his backfoot, while Sergeant Ellen Destry hunts down an elusive serial rapist. A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry—newly minted head of her department’s sex crime unit—and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Garry Disher’s Peninsula-based crimes series. With meth-related crime on the rise, interdepartmental tensions mount, and Challis soon finds himself fighting to keep control of his case. Meanwhile, Destry is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. A tense, human, and at times darkly funny entry into Disher’s celebrated Ned Kelly Award–winning series.
Signal Red
by Robert RyanThe inspiration behind BBC One's thrilling new drama, The Great Train Robbery.Sunday Times bestseller Robert Ryan brings the most ambitious heist of the twentieth century to gripping and vivid life.1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints. Outraged by the gang's audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one...
Signal Red
by Robert RyanThe inspiration behind BBC One's thrilling new drama, The Great Train Robbery.Sunday Times bestseller Robert Ryan brings the most ambitious heist of the twentieth century to gripping and vivid life.1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints. Outraged by the gang's audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one...
Signal Red: Empire Of Sand, Death On The Ice, And Signal Red (The Great British Heroes and Antiheroes Trilogy #3)
by Robert RyanAn edge-of-your-seat caper based on one of the most sensational crimes in British history In August 1963, a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London was forced to make an unscheduled stop. Led by a charismatic jewel thief, a gang of fifteen unarmed men boarded the train, incapacitated the driver, and made off with more than £2 million. Divided equally, it was more than enough money for them to disappear forever—if they could all keep quiet. Incensed by the brazenness of the crime, Scotland Yard investigators employed every means they could think of to get the thieves to turn on one another. Soon, a meticulous plan descended into a desperate free-for-all as the gang went down one by one. This heart-racing novel inspired by the Great Train Robbery asks the most fascinating question of all: Who talked? This ebook includes an afterword by Bruce Reynolds, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery. Signal Red is the 3rd book in the Great British Heroes and Antiheroes Trilogy, which also includes Empire of Sand and Death on the Ice.
Signal (Sam Dryden Series #2)
by Patrick LeeSam Dryden lives quietly in a small coastal town in southern California, buying and fixing up old houses. It's good physical work that he's come to love. But his peaceful life is shattered when he gets a phone call from an old friend in trouble. A phone call that pulls Dryden into the middle of a situation that's as violent as it is baffling. For FBI agent Marnie Calvert, it all begins at a secluded trailer in the Mojave Desert-the scene of a horrifying crime, but also of an impossible and mysterious act of heroism. At least, it should have been impossible. Determined to learn the truth, what Calvert discovers leads her to Sam Dryden-an ex-Special Forces operative whose ordinary life has suddenly become anything but. Through their actions, Dryden and Calvert have unknowingly placed themselves in the cross-hairs of a frightening and dangerous enemy, the result of a generations-long conspiracy finally coming to fruition. What these people have is a technology that allows them to affect events before they even happen. How they are planning to use it, however, will result in the death of millions. To defeat them, Dryden will need to do more than think fast-he'll need to think around corners, and face down anenemy that can seize on his mistakes before he even makes them. Following the national bestsellerRunner, Sam Dryden, Patrick Lee's most indelible creation, returns in one of the most compelling, breathless thrillers yet---Signal.
Signals Volume 1
by NikaMel Song is an unlikely fit for a crack investigator—in her downtime she loves watching soap operas in her pajamas, eating instant ramen, and internet shopping.But she has one secret weapon: the ability to read minds.Still, Mel can't afford to get complacent. Not when there is a fresh threat brewing in the shadows of New York City...Nika&’s thrilling suspense story Signals arrives in its print debut from Dark Horse and Tapas, part of a new collaboration!
Signals Volume 2
by NikaRead the exciting conclusion to Mel Song&’s psychic adventures in the second volume of Signals, created by Nika and brought to print by Dark Horse and Tapas Entertainment!Having barely escaped her first encounter with Ken, a powerful fellow psychic, Mel and her two friends must regroup and determine their next course of action to continue their search for the missing Julie. The smart thing to do would be to lay low, but caution has never been Mel&’s strong suit—especially when there is a case to be solved!
Signature Kill: A Novel
by David LevienTaut and edgy, Signature Kill is a riveting exploration of a killer next door--a tour de force from acclaimed author David Levien. The quiet of the Indianapolis night is broken when an unidentifiable body is found in a local park, deliberately arranged in such a way that police know it's not a random crime. Across the city, former cop Frank Behr, down on his luck and virtually broke, takes on a no-win case to locate a desperate mother's wayward daughter who's been missing for months. Behr has few friends left on the police force, but as he wades into the world of small-time prostitution from which the daughter disappeared, he comes to believe the two cases are related. When another body is found, it becomes clear Indianapolis has a serial killer on its streets . . . an untraceable predator who, Behr surmises, lives behind the chilling veil of a perfectly normal life. Behr's pursuit threatens to become entangled in the official police investigation, and will lead him to a dark place--and ultimately to a devastating decision from which he will not be able to turn back. Signature Kill is a masterly novel, in which one man's obsession with justice faces off against a killer's all-consuming obsession with perfection.From the Hardcover edition.
Signed by Zelda
by Kate FeifferAn aspiring handwriting analyst tracks down her missing neighbor in this caper from the author of The Problem with the Puddles.More than anything, eleven-year-old Lucy wants to be the world's most famous handwriting expert. "You can learn a lot about a person through how they write their I's," she tells her friend, Pigeon--who just so happens to be a talking bird. When Lucy's neighbor Zelda goes missing and the only clue is a cryptic handwritten note, Lucy is determined to crack the case using her graphology skills. With some help from Nicky, who lives upstairs, and plenty of advice from Pigeon (who just so happens to be very opinionated), can Lucy decipher the whereabouts of her apartment building's missing resident?
Signed, Picpus
by Georges Simenon David CowardMaigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series."Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter and he could just make out a couple of words."When a fortuneteller is found murdered in her apartment, Maigret must find out not only who commited the crime, but why it was predicted in a note found earlier--signed by the unknown Picpus.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Signed, Sealed and Dead: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #3)
by Carolyn Ridder AspensonUSA Today–Bestselling Author:The clock runs out for a Georgia high school coach—and a sleuthing realtor is on the case . . .Realtor Lily Sprayberry hopes to have kids someday—and if she does, she&’ll refuse to let them play sports. It&’s not because she thinks sports are dangerous—it&’s the parents. God bless them, they&’re a hot mess. When her client, the high school&’s new varsity lacrosse coach, is murdered, her list of suspects looks like a PTA membership list. Someone on that list wanted him dead, and she&’ll go into overtime to find his killer—even if it means being benched . . . permanently.
Signed Sealed Dead
by Cynthia MurphyFrom the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house."Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is LyingWhen true-Crime obsessed Paige, along with her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history—a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s.Soon after, notes start appearing at their home, about the secrets the old house is keeping. The clues lead Paige to a diary concealed in the walls that belonged to one of the missing girls.Could this be the key to solving a quarter-of-a-century mystery...or will the diary make Paige the next target?
El significado del fuego
by Kike FerrariEl temido y temible señor Machi es visto por última vez a bordo de su BMW, saliendo a toda velocidad del country donde vivía. No se sabe dónde está. Su familia, sus amigos, sus socios, la policía, el juez, todos exponen sus teorías acerca de qué pudo haberle pasado. Con una estructura perfecta y un ritmo endemoniado, El significado del fuego reconstruye los últimos momentos de Machi a través de quienes lo conocieron: desde el fiscal a cargo del caso, pasando por el propio juez, el comisario, la esposa, los hijos, los amigos, los socios del restaurante, hasta los guardias de seguridad del country e incluso las "amigas" que lo visitaban con frecuencia. La nueva y esperada novela de Kike Ferrari, autor de Que de lejos parecen moscas, vuelve sobre una historia de corrupción, mafia y poder que retrata de manera implacable un país en decadencia. La crítica ha dicho... «Kike Ferrari es sin dudas una de las voces más importantes de la novela policial argentina actual. Construye personajes inolvidables, reales y poéticos a la vez.»Claudia Piñeiro Sobre Que de lejos parecen moscas: «Esta novela debería venir con una advertencia sobre mercancías peligrosas.»James Sallis, autor de Drive «Oscuramente cómica, llena de acción y humor. Para aquellos a quienes les gusta la novela negra rápida, corta, agresiva y sucia.»The New York Times «Que de lejos parecen moscas es muy sólida, fluye perfectamente. Y además está escrita con esta idea de que la novela negra es la nueva novela social del siglo XX.Paco Ignacio Taibo II «Brutal, tensa, ansiosa, la novela tiene también un juego literario: es un policial que parece "negro" [...] pero todo en ella es especulativo. Y -otra rareza- casi que no importa eso, importa la venganza.»Patricia Kolesnicov, Clarín Sobre Todos nosotros: «Esta es la historia de Volver al futuro en versión local.»Paula Conde, Clarín «Ferrari nos propone volver a lo colectivo como única manera de construir otra sociedad, la que soñamos.»Nadia Ruge, La Izquierda Diario
The Significant Seven (Jack Doyle Series #0)
by John McEvoySeven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to buy race horses, one of which, The Badger Express, turns out to be a sensational runner, stallion, and money maker. Seven years later, the men become targets of a professional assassin, an ex-Navy SEAL and Iraq private security guard named Orth. They begin dying, one by one.Jack Doyle returns to the race track, volunteering to aid FBI agents in a search for criminals fixing races. Doyle then becomes involved in protecting Rene Rison, the favored daughter of the Significant Seven's leader Arnie Rison. Jack Doyle, as always irreverent, observant, opinionated, sometimes mistaken but always persistent, eventually manages to find answers to the questions of who is fixing the races and who is having members of the Significant Seven killed off.