Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year since the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman, has received a lustrous pearl. Now her anonymous benefactor has requested a meeting, and Miss Morstan wants Holmes and Watson to accompany her. Together they uncover a story that began in far-off India with unimaginable treasures and terrible betrayal. Includes a new introduction by Martin Freeman of the television series Sherlock.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
English literature's first and greatest superhero, Sherlock Holmes still fascinates readers more than 100 years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the beloved detective. In this, the first collection of Holmes's stories, the detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to capture an ingenious bank robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide. Though readers have good reason to believe Holmes will somehow triumph...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere.
What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues...
Series
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A two-parter from the 1968 TV series based on the famous stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr Watson. In the most well-known Sherlock Holmes story of them all, Holmes travels to Dartmoor to unravel the murder mystery that has haunted the Baskerville family for generations.
Series
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Two episodes from the 1968 TV series based on the famous stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr Watson. In 'The Sign of Four', Holmes and Watson are intrigued by the case of Mary Morstan, whose father disappeared ten years previously. Every year since, Mary has received a pearl from a mystery benefactor, and she now requires the Baker Street detective to act as her escort in a meeting with the unknown...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Who murdered the King of Rovenia? Can they be stopped before they kill his heir? When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson board a ship to protect the young man, they find themselves up against notorious jewel thieves as well as royal assassins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The original super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, is back on the case Having emerged from a Swiss glacier and solved his first murder case in more than ninety-five years, the world's most famous detective now sleuths through modern London seeking a stolen letter purportedly written by Shakespeare. But as Holmes and his roommate, James Wilson, track the letter and its terrorist dealers to a Scottish castle, where a myriad of surprises await, Holmes fears...
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From the bustling neighborhoods of New York City and Washington, D.C., to sunny yet sinister cities like San Francisco on the West Coast, the world's best-loved British sleuth will face some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer, and meet some of America's most famous figures along the way. A fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.
19) The scarlet claw
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1944
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve a series of murders in Canada that the locals are attributing to a legendary marsh monster.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Watson, tending recuperating soldiers housed at centuries-old Musgrave Manor, summons Sherlock Holmes to investigate strange happenings. What follows is a bizarre series of events, including murders, secret passages, a game of chess and a mysterious family ritual."--Container.