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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... don't know exactly. There is—now, this is strictly confidential, you understand—there is a large quantity of gold bullion even now being gathered in Calcutta for shipment to London, specifically for storage in our vaults. It is gold ...
... don't really expect to run into a gang of desperate gold thieves down here,” he told me, “but in case there is any trouble I leave it to you to give a few short blasts on your police whistle—you do have your police whistle with you?—and ...
... don't you go inside?” Margaret stepped sharply forward to allow an oxcart to clatter its way past them. “I prefer standing out here for now,” she told her father. “Of course, m'dear. Silly of me.” Brigadier General Sir Edward Basilberg ...
... don't know how she's going to manage back in England, where the servants are only moderately obsequious.” “I doubt whether they could manage a house quite this large back home,” Margaret commented. She peered into the front parlor ...
... don't know how many, and I don't know how much of what Mr. Holmes claimed about you was true, but in some cases it always seemed to me that it was nothing but sheer luck and your own deuced—excuse me, Professor—cleverness that kept you ...
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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 |