"En ting er å finne de skyldige. Men verden er full av medskyldige også." Aker Brygge, en sen fredag kveld. Det er tomt rundt meglerbordet i Optima Finans. På et kontor lyser en enslig skjerm. Håvard Gabrielsen, en tallknuser som jobber med fusjoner, oppkjøp og børsnoteringer, venter utålmodig på en avgjørende e-post.Søndag morgen blir han funnet av rengjøringspersonalet. Han er drept, henrettet, av skudd til hodet og brystet. De spesielle omstendighetene gjør at Økokrim-etterforsker Milo Cavalli plutselig står overfor sitt første drap. Saken er også personlig:Håvard Gabrielsen er ikke bare et offer. Han var Milo Cavallis studiekamerat.Milos jakt på sannheten blant oppskrudde verdier og lyssky transaksjoner skal bli skjebnesvanger. Mektige krefter ønsker ikke saken oppklart. Snart befinner både Milo selv og familien seg i livsfare.Er det organiserte kriminelle som nå for fullt har tatt steget inn i det norske aksjemarkedet? Eller handler dette om at Håvard jobbet tett på en av Norges største våpenprodusenter før han ble drept?

Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War, needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Sherlock Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins. Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward...There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Sherlock Holmes is one of those people.

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson.The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals.

Fire tilsynelatende ulike drapssaker har én ting til felles: Alle har tilknytning til en bestemt mann. Men denne mannen er allerede død, henrettet for mord. Eller er han det? Rettsmedisiner Kay Scarpetta står overfor en tilsynelatende uløselig gåte: En henrettet morders fingeravtrykk dukker opp på åstedet for et nytt mord - begått etter henrettelsen. Scarpetta obduserte selv den henrettede Ronnie Joe Wadell, og er med andre ord sikker på at han døde, og hva han døde av. - Så skjer et nytt mord, tilsynelatende uten sammenheng med det første. Men når de samme fingeravtrykkene dukker opp der også må Scarpetta stille ubehagelige spørsmål. Kan en død mann drepe? Lange forgreininger Saken har forgreininger helt inn i rettsmedisinsk institutt. Wadells fingeravtrykk er forsvunnet fra alle arkiver. Og noen bryter seg inn på Scarpettas datamaskin mens hun arbeider med saken. - Så blir også Scarpettas assistent, Susan, myrdet. Susan var tilstede under obduksjonen av Wadell. Hvis mordet har en sammenheng med Wadells sak, hva var det i tilfelle Susan visste? Og hvem er det som beskytter morderen der ute? Intelligent og grundig Ingen kan beskylde Patricia Cornwell for å fare med lettvintheter når hun beskriver arbeidet ved patologisk institutt. Med detaljkunnskap og overbevisning fører hun leseren fra spor til spor, nærmest fra lik til lik. Dette er intelligent spenning i høyklasse, og Grusom og urimelig fikk Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger i 1993 da boken kom ut første gang, en pris som henger svært høyt.'

Fra 1891 begynte Strand Magazine å publisere Arthur Conan Doyles detektivromaner som serie. I denne boken er alle historiene samlet, fra A study in scarlet til The hound of the Baskervilles og The case-book of Sherlock Holmes.

Boken inneholder 56 noveller om detektiven Sherlock Holmes.

There is one literary detective who stands above all others, whose powers of deduction are known the world over, whose influence can still be felt in today's most modern whodunits. Who is it, you ask? Why, it's elementary! Sherlock Holmes, the famous gumshoe of 221B Baker Street. And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the man who made him famous in such tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet changed the world of mysteries, inspiring legions of devoted fans.Whether you're a devotee or you've yet to be awed by Holmes's powers of deduction, you'll love this Canterbury Classics edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous works, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, The Valley of Fear, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. The perfect book to complete any bookshelf, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories features an eye-catching leather-bound cover with gold foil stamping, as well as fine ivory paper with gilded edges. You'll be spellbound by Conan Doyle's descriptive prose, and then delight in displaying this beautiful book in your home.Lexile score: 1020L

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings this long forgotten case to life, and explores the inner workings of these two very different men.

Julekrim som varer nesten helt til påske! I En kriminelt god jul har Nils Nordberg funnet frem femten utvalgte historier som forener lysets høytid med de mørkeste gjerninger .; en for innspurten, en for julaften og en for hver av de tretten juledagene. Vi tas med til et vinterfrossent Baker Street, hvor Sherlock Holmes blir konfrontert med en julegås som legger et egg verdt en formue, til et førjulsstresset Bergen, hvor Varg Veum må kombinere rollene som detektiv og julenisse, til engelske herskapshus hvor Lord Peter Wimsey og Hercule Poirot til alt hell er blant gjestene, til en indisk storby, hvor en fattig jomfru nok en gang føder et lite barn, til et ukjent tåkelagt sted i Europa hvor etterforskerne Kurt Wallander og van Veeteren på forunderlig vis møtes, og mye mer. Blant leverandørene til denne samlingen av julepakker med overraskelser er Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. D. James, Agatha Christie, Gunnar Staalesen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen. Og Jan Mehlum bidrar med en splitter ny, spesialskrevet historie.

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The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. The debut episode took as its inspiration the very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet - and this edition of Conan Doyle's novel will allow Sherlock fans to discover, or re-discover, the power of that classic story. A Study in Scarlet is the genre-defining work with which popular crime fiction was born. A potent mix of serial murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings and revenge, the novel introduces us to the world-famous characters of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade and sees Sherlock and Dr Watson meet and join forces for the first time as they track a mysterious killer that stalks London's streets. In addition to the original text, this edition also has an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, who explains how it inspired the Sherlock script.

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this new edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of short stories, Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss explains how these gripping tales inspired and influenced the new series. Sherlock: The Adventures contains twelve short stories first published in The Strand magazine between 1891 and 1892 and then published as a collection in October 1892. It includes some of Conan Doyle's best tales of murder and mystery, such as 'The Adventures of the Speckled Band', in which the strange last words of a dying woman 'It was the band, the speckled band!' and an inexplicable whistling in the night are the only clues Sherlock Holmes has to prevent another murder; and 'The Five Orange Pips', in which an untimely death and the discovery of the letter containing five orange pips lead to a cross-Atlantic conspiracy.

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this TV tie-in edition to the classic novel, Sherlock and Dr Watson receive a visit from Mary Morsten, who offers up a particularly cryptic puzzle for them to solve. Her father went missing six years ago and since then she has received a pearl for every year he has not re-appeared. Now, the treasure's sender has requested a meeting and she would like Sherlock and Watson to accompany her. Finding the mystery benefactor is only the start of this adventure, that puts Sherlock and Watson hot on the trail of cold-blooded killers and thieves, and a lost Indian fortune.

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, which was first published in 1894, includes the infamous 'The Final Problem'. It is one of Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock tales and the detective's deadliest challenge. This is the ultimate thriller, in which Sherlock meets his intellectual match: the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Moriarty pushes Sherlock to his intellectual limits, this game of cat and mouse will test not only their wits but their mortality.

The hit BBC series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this TV tie-in edition of the classic novel, first published in The Strand in 1901, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called to the haunting and beautiful moors of Dartmoor and the home of the Baskerville family, who seem to have fallen victim to a family curse. A terrifying spectre in the shape of a great hound was once said to have hunted an ancestor across the moors and the recent, mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville suggests that the hound has returned. But is this really a supernatural curse or is a much more dastardly and earthly plot a foot? Sherlock and Dr Watson must solve the riddle of the hound before another murder is committed.

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic collection of stories, with an introduction by Sherlock creator Mark Gatiss, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures. After his deadly plunge over Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes seemed gone forever - but, as mysteriously as he left, he returns three years later. Now, reunited with Watson, a host of thrilling new adventures through London's underworld awaits, battling thieves, kidnappers and killers alike. But Holmes is about to meet his most despised villain yet: the dastardly Charles Augustus Milverton.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, a true icon of literature was born. Since then, their humble address at 221B Baker Street has become almost as famous as the great detective himself, with the incredible popularity of Sherlock Holmes's adventures never wavering over the last 130 years. Bound in a rich, collector's cover, this deluxe and expansive edition, produced in association with The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Baker Street, is the definitive collection for fans of the great detective. It contains all of Conan Doyle's stories - four novels and a colossal 56 short stories - complete and unabridged, encompassing the entirety of the legendary author's Sherlock Holmes work.

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