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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... hands flat on the table. “Mr. Holmes, on behalf of the Bank of England, I would like to employ you.” “So I surmised,” Holmes said. “To do what?” Bergarot considered. “I'm not sure how to put it,” he confessed. “Perhaps it would be ...
... hand. When we arrived back at Baker Street, Holmes suggested that I stay the night. “You can have your old room,” he said, “and leave for your hospital rounds tomorrow after breakfast.” “Gladly, and thank you,” I told him. “And I have ...
... hand a relief, and on the other a great mystery. Why did he not return home? Who removed his clothes, and why? If one of his enemies caught up with him and did away with him, where is his body? If he is still alive, where is he being ...
... hand reached out for the bellpull and then drew back, as a brief but animated discussion began, accompanied by much arm-waving. Then the hand reached out again, and the bell was pulled. Moments later the door was opened. A shoving match ...
... hand, tramped into the office after Mycroft and closed the door. Moriarty rounded his desk and lowered himself into his heavy oak desk chair. “Seat yourselves, gentlemen,” he said. “I think you'll find that armchair by the window ...
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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 |