David Stuart Davies — Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair, 2007 год

14 февраля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope’s novel «The Prisoner of Zenda».
Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll has mysteriously disappeared. In desperation, Sapt consults Sherlock Holmes who, with his faithful companion Watson, travels to the Kingdom of Ruritania in an effort to thwart the plans of the scheming Rupert of Hentzau in his bid for the throne.
«Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair» is a wonderful blend of detective story and rousing adventure yarn.

ISBN: 9781840225488
мягкая обложка, 128 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Return from the Dead: Classic Mummy Stories, 2006 год

19 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Return from the Dead: Classic Mummy Stories - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, «The Jewel of the Seven Stars» by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after «Dracula». A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb’s «The Mummy», a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. «Some Words with a Mummy» is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle’s «The Ring of Thoth» is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie «The Mummy» starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever since. «Lot 249», another Doyle chiller, completes this collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt a nightmare.

ISBN: 9781840224528
мягкая обложка, 288 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Sherlock Holmes — «The Shadow of the Rat» and «The Tangled Skein», 2010 год

14 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Sherlock Holmes -

Wordsworth / —
Two of Sherlock Holmes’ most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures are here in one volume. In «The Shadow of the Rat», a body is found floating in the river — a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club where a person’s darkest wish can be granted — for a price. Holmes falls under the control of a will stronger than his own which threatens the life of his closest friend Watson and leaves the government — indeed Britain itself — open to a deadly terror, the monstrous Giant Rat of Sumatra. In «The Tangled Skein», it is the autumn of 1888, and following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes is faced with an even darker mystery. A strange package, an attempt on Holmes’ life, murders on Hampstead Heath and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson to return to Devon and the bleak terrain of Dartmoor where they encounter the true embodiment of evil, Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead.

ISBN: 978-1-84022-652-2
мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Shadows of Sherlock Holmes, 1998 год

27 октября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Shadows of Sherlock Holmes - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Wordsworth Classics
«The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes» is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen — The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados — the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o’ My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn — the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: «The Purloined Letter» by Edgar Allan Poe, «The Stolen Cigar Case» by Bret Harte, «The Swedish Match» by Anton Chekhov, «Nine Points of the Law» by E.W. Hornung, «The Ghost at Massingham Mansions» by Ernest Bramah and «The Great Pearl Mystery» by Baroness Orczy.

ISBN: 9781853267444
мягкая обложка, 384 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — The Tangled Skein, 2006 год

30 сентября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
The Tangled Skein - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
It is the autumn of 1888. Following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned from Dartmoor, little realising that fate will see them back in Devon before the year is out.
Holmes receives a potentially lethal package, the first strand in the tangled skein, which he will need to unravel before this new adventure is resolved.
A threat to Holmes’ life, murders on Hampstead Heath, and a strange phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken — an encounter which brings them face to face with evil itself, embodied in Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead.

ISBN: 9781840225273
мягкая обложка, 176 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Sherlock Holmes: The Game’s Afoot, 2008 год

28 сентября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Once more, the game’s afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth’s Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth. Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as the puzzle of the Green Skull, the secret of the Brown Box, the conundrum of the Dragon of Lea Lane, as well as coming face to face once again with the Sussex Vampire. We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment.

ISBN: 9781840220711
мягкая обложка, 416 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Irish Ghost Stories, 2010 год

25 сентября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Irish Ghost Stories - David Stuart Davies

CRW Publishing / —
Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural — from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and storytelling have always been central to Irish folk culture, and this anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, George Moore and W. B. Yeats. The result is a collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees that will chill the blood of readers and listeners alike.

ISBN: 978-1-905716-82-1
твердый переплет, 512 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Crime Scenes, 2008 год

1 сентября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Crime Scenes - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
«Crime Scenes» is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crime procedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darkly humorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crime story has developed and matured over the last two hundred years or so into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining form of fiction it is today. The impressive cast of contributors includes well-respected and well-established names such as Peter Lovesey, Edward Marston, Natasha Cooper, Judith Cutler and Russell James as well as those currently making their reputation as fine exponents of their craft and a few young lions whose work is bristling with promise. Crime Scenes is a treasure chest of delights for the fans of crime fiction.

ISBN: 9781840220933
мягкая обложка, 368 стр.
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David Stuart Davies — Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories, 2006 год

27 июля, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories - David Stuart Davies

Wordsworth / —
A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his own intelligence to rely on rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver.
Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G.K. Chesterton’s Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah’s remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by allowing his sensitive fingers to run over the print, Craig Kennedy, ‘the American Sherlock Holmes’ created by Arthur B. Reeve, and Jacques Futrelle’s Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen, ‘The Thinking Machine’ amongst others. Tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle will thrill and puzzle you.

ISBN: 9781840220650
мягкая обложка, 1280 стр.
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