This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Holmes lehnte sich in seinen Armstuhl zurück und zog das Notizbuch aus der Tasche. »Eine der gefährlichsten Frauen in der Welt«, sagte er, »ist die unstet reisende, alleinstehende Frau. Sie ist die harmloseste und oft sogar nützlichste Person, aber auch für andere der unvermeidliche Anstifter zu Verbrechen. Sie ist hilflos. Sie ist nomadenhaft. Sie hat genügende Mittel, um von Land zu Land, von Hotel zu Hotel zu ziehen. Man findet sie verloren in der Unzahl von Fremdenpensionen und Kurorten. Sie ist ein verlaufenes Huhn in einer Welt von Füchsen. Wenn sie verschlungen ist, so wird sie selten vermißt. Ich fürchte sehr, daß der Lady Frances Carfax etwas zugestoßen ist.« Ich war froh, als Holmes so plötzlich vom Allgemeinen zum Besonderen überging ...
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A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's two-part Sherlock Holmes novel, "The Valley of Fear."
About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe '. A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the strangest of cases. A woman receives a gruesome package - two human ears in a box. A vital government secret is threatened with exposure. Miss Brenda Tregennis is found scared to death - could she really have died from fright alone? And when the stability of the country is threatend, Holmes' unrivalled talents are called upon once again ...