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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... face rigid with barely restrained rage. Lestrade stood stiffly to the side of the desk, twisting his hat about in his hand, looking uncomfortable but determined. Gregson pushed himself belligerently forward, holding his reinforced ...
... face or posture. With his high, domed forehead over a prominent nose and deep-set eyes that seemed to see more than ordinary mortals are permitted to see, the professor resembled a great bird of prey. Once, in the Museum of Antiquities ...
... face, and then fell. “What was I to think?” he asked. “At first, after the accident, I thought Holmes was dead. But then when they found his clothes . . .” “What accident?” Moriarty demanded. “Before we continue,” Inspector Lestrade ...
... face suggesting the cunning and weaselly soul of the man himself. He sat, legs crossed and tucked under him like a dervish, on a flat wooden chair with no back. To his left was Cooley the Pup, who had cultivated the look of an innocent ...
... face, “might have frightened you away before I had a chance to speak with you. It is certain to be higher than a million pounds, much higher. I wouldn't be surprised if each of us clears a million, even after splitting with our assorted ...
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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 |