In Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex...
“The body” was discovered by Inspector Roderick Alleyn himself, old friend of the deceased, eighty-three-year-old Miss Emily Pride. Miss Pride had been looking for trouble: the sole inheritor of a tiny island, site of a miraculous spring, she...
En ce vendredi 7 novembre, à Concarneau, quand l'horloge lumineuse indique onze heures, toutes les routes sont désertes. Mais à l'hôtel l'Amiral, il y a encore des hommes en train de jouer aux cartes. Cinq minutes plus...