Category: British literature

In the Lilac Gatehouse

: In the English province, a Spaniard is killed, of which nothing is known. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the Spaniard was killed, preparing for the murder of an escaped dictator of a small country, who was hiding here. Part one. An Extraordinary Adventure with Mr. John Scott-Ackles Sherlock Holmes Turns ...

Empty house

: After a three-year absence, Sherlock Holmes returns and, with the help of a cunning trap, deals with the first assistant of the deceased professor Moriarty. Three years have passed since the death of Sherlock Holmes. In London, under very mysterious circumstances, the young Earl Ronald Adair was killed. Ronald was a card lover ...

Vanity Fair

England, the beginning of the XIX century. Europe is at war with Napoleon, but this does not prevent many people obsessed with ambition to continue the pursuit of worldly goods - wealth, titles, ranks. Vanity Fair, The Bustle of Worldly Hustle and Bustle rages day and night ... Two young girls leave Miss Pinkerton's boarding house. Emilia Sedley, ...

June 31

The action takes place in the fabulous kingdom of Perador in the XII century and today in London on a lunar day on June 31. Kingdom of Perador In the tiny kingdom of Perador, in one of King Arthur's vassal possessions, King Meliot rules. Life goes on peacefully and quietly. The only daughter and heiress ...

Golden pince

: The secretary of a famous scientist is killed. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the killer is the scientist’s wife, a Russian revolutionary who tried to steal important papers from her husband’s office. Inspector Stanley Hopkins is contacting Sherlock Holmes for help.He came to a standstill in investigating the murder of Mr. Willoughby Smith....

Scandal in Bohemia

: King of Bohemia is about to get married, but he is being blackmailed by an ex-lover. He asks for the help of Sherlock Holmes, and he for the first time is defeated by a woman. The king of Bohemia seeks help from Sherlock Holmes. The king once had a stormy romance with the famous opera diva Irene Adler, but now he ...

H or M?

: Former intelligence workers, husband and wife, are involved in a secret operation and expose a group of spies. Spring of 1940. Former intelligence agents, spouses Birsford, Tommy and Prudence (whose family name is Tuppence), worry that they are not enlisted in the army because of age, and they want to be useful to the country ...

Barnyard

Mr. Jones owns the Manor Farm near Willingdon in England. The old hog Major collects at night in a large barn all the animals that live here. He says that they live in slavery and poverty, because a person appropriates the fruits of their labor, and calls for rebellion: you need to free yourself from ...

Man with a white face

: Parents hide a young man who fought in Africa, and do not allow him to communicate with people.Sherlock Holmes discovers that the young man is mistakenly considered a leper, and brings a doctor to him who is taken to cure him. Retired military officer Mr. James Dodd is turning to Sherlock Holmes. During service in ...

Clown Shalimar

: A tragic story about the fate of the disputed Indo-Pakistani territory of Kashmir, about its unfortunate inhabitants forced to live in an atmosphere of hatred and fear, about their broken destinies. India Los Angeles, early 1990s. India Ofals, daughter of former US ambassador to India, depressed after murder ...

Mazepa

The battle of Poltava is over, the army of the Swedish king Charles XII was defeated by Russian troops.The “Shafts of Moscow” were saved “up to a year, all the other blacks,” when Napoleon’s army approached the Russian capital. Wounded Karl rushes away "through the waters of rivers and the expanse of fields." The regiment, which had paved his way, was all dead. Approximate, ...

Emma

: The novel is dedicated to a young woman who enthusiastically wraps her acquaintances and neighbors. Emma Woodhouse, a young twenty-year-old girl, lives with her father in Highbury, a small village near London. The Wodehouse is the first family in the village. The novel begins immediately after ...

A Tale of Two Cities

XVIII century. A senior official of a well-known banking office travels to France with a rather difficult assignment: he must inform the daughter of his old client Lucy Manette that her father is alive. Dr. Manette spent eighteen years in the Bastille, all this time his family did not know anything about him. Daughter ...

Kids midnight

: Full of adventures and trials, mystically connected with the history of the country, the life story of an Indian born on Independence Day on August 15, 1947. The narration is conducted on behalf of the main character Salem Sinai. Book 1 A 31-year-old Salem, dying from strange diseases, hurries to tell about his life, ...

Yellow face

: After several years of a happy marriage, the husband notices that the wife is hiding from him something related to her past life. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the woman has a black daughter. Mr. Grant Monroe is turning to Sherlock Holmes for help. Three years ago, he married a woman whom he sincerely fell in love with....

Hunterberry Tea Party

Prologue Elinor Carlisle is accused of killing Mary Gerard. Among those present in the courtroom is the famous detective Hercule Poirot. Part One Mrs. Wellman, bedridden hostess of the Hunterberry estate, is looked after by two nurses, Miss O’Brien and Miss Hopkins. Mrs. Wellman stayed early ...

Ridiculous little house

At the age of eighty-seven, a millionaire, Greek by birth, Aristide Leonidis dies. His attending physician refuses to issue a death certificate and insists on an autopsy. His granddaughter Sophia asks her fiancé Charles Hayward, the son of an assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, to help her in the investigation....

The tragedy in three acts

Act one. Suspicion Sir Charles Cartwright, middle-aged man, famous actor, who recently left the stage, gathers guests in his villa. He is not a superstitious person, and the fact that 13 people should get together, “a damn dozen,” does not bother him. Among the invitees is his old friend Dr. Bartholomew ...

Death comes at the end

2000 BC e. The daughter of Imhotep Renisenb after the death of her beloved husband returns with her little daughter to her father's house. Imhotep is away at this time. In his absence, the eldest son of Imhotep Yakhmos controls everything in the house. Yakhmos’s wife, Satipi, a beautiful, stately woman, pushes her husband and believes that ...

Riddle of Sittaford

In a small town of Sittaford, retired captain Joseph Trevillian, who was reputed to be a woman-hater, built the house of Sittford House. Nearby, on the land he bought, he built several small houses, in one of which his friend, Major John Barnaby, settled. Trevillian rented a house to a certain Mrs. Willet, ...