The Empress of India: A Professor Moriarty NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 01/04/2007 - 320 páginas In the late Victorian days, a large amount of gold is arriving unannounced on the cargo ship The Empress of India. Yet the impossible happens--the shipment of gold disappears en route. Sherlock Holmes, brought in by Her Majesty's Government, knows that only one man is both diabolical and clever enough to pull off such an outlandish, daring, and, yes, theoretically impossible crime: Professor James Moriarty. |
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... better, or at least more interesting, dinner than the Croydon could supply.” “What is it, Holmes?” I asked, pulling my own overcoat back on. Holmes grabbed his cane and bowler from the rack by the door, wrapped a long silk scarf around ...
... better clubs. Its walls were covered with framed mementos from two centuries of private banking with clients that included dukes, earls, and archbishops, as well as sultans, emirs, aghas, kings, and queens. The Honorable Eustace ...
... better. You can assist me in a little direct research. We'll let the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street pay your wages for the day.” “What do you have in mind?” I asked. “Merely eliminating a few improbabilities,” he told me. And, in his ...
... better as frankincense, and sweet pastries and human excrement and the olfactory ghosts of curries long gone, and still more cow dung, and a thousand years of this and that and long-forgotten those. The odors assaulted the nose of the ...
... better be good.” “In brief, gentlemen,” Pin said, “there is a shipment of bullion— several tons of pure, unalloyed gold—arriving in London soon by steamship for storage in the vaults of the Bank of England.” “Gold!” Cooley the Pup spit ...
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4 The Maharajas Golden Houri | 40 |
5 The Enigmatic Dr Pin Dok Low | 56 |
6 Government House | 63 |
7 West of Suez | 76 |
17 All at Sea | 164 |
18 Stirring and Twitching | 181 |
19 Elephanta | 187 |
20 A Number of Things | 201 |
21 The Lonely Sea | 211 |
22 HuggerMugger | 224 |
23 The Gathering Storm | 234 |
24 The Marquis of Queensberry Doesnt Rule Here | 244 |
8 The Jadoogar | 81 |
9 The Phansigar | 97 |
10 Punctuated Equilibrium | 110 |
11 The Games Afoot | 125 |
12 The Empress of India | 132 |
13 The Scorpion Killers | 137 |
14 Shipmates | 145 |
15 All That Glisters | 152 |
16 Bombay | 160 |
25 Who Is This Man? | 251 |
26 Missing | 261 |
27 Altered Patterns | 265 |
28 Into Thin Air | 273 |
29 A Pretty Trick | 283 |
30 The Return | 302 |
31 The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street | 304 |