B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Dancing Men (EN)
Hilton Cubitt visits Sherlock Holmes to show him a sheet of paper with a weird sequence of drawn figures. When these odd messages began to arrive at Cubitt’s house, fear and panic overwhelmed his wife Elsie. She is afraid her past is catching up with her, but she refuses to reveal anything about it.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is Sir Conan Doyle’s second collection about the great detective. In this collection we meet the same two protagonists, namely Holmes and Watson, but the cases and mysteries that must be solved are completely new. The disappearance of a champion horse, a dead coachman and stolen naval treaty are only a small portion of all the mysteries the two men will have to deal with.
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Case of Identity (EN)
A young woman named Mary Sutherland is engaged and about to marry Hosmer Angel, when he unexpectedly disappears. In her despair and anxiety, Mary decides to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. This seems to be a simple case for the great detective. After a short exchange of letters with Mary’s stepfather, Mr.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (EN)
Inspector Lestrade is investigating a series of break-ins in London which have one thing in common: shattered Napoleon busts. After many unsuccessful attempts to solve the case, Lestrade comes to a dead end and is forced to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. The next day another bust has been destroyed, but there has also been a murder.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Gloria Scott (EN)
Sherlock Holmes is still a student when he receives his very first case. While still in college, he is invited to the house of his good friend, Victor Trevor. There he meets Trevor’s father, who challenges Holmes to analyze him, so that he can test the young detective’s investigative skills. Holmes touches a nerve after mentioning a person with the initials "J.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for advice, after finding his friend Sir Baskerville dead. According to the official version, Baskerville died from a heart attack, but Mortimer thinks that something terrible happened to his friend. He believes the supernatural hound that has been chasing the Baskerville family down for many years is responsible for his death.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Dying Detective (EN)
The great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is dying from a highly contagious tropical disease called Tapanuli fever. Dr. Watson is shocked when he hears about his friend’s illness. He travels to examine him, but Holmes refuses his help. Instead, a man called Culverton Smith arrives after being called by Watson.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lost World (EN)
Edward Malone is a young journalist at the "Daily Gazette", who is eager to impress his girlfriend Gladys. To do so, he requests a dangerous and complex task. After a few days, he is assigned to an expedition leaded by the notorious Professor Challenger. The the expedition is headed toward what Challenger’s claim is a new and isolated area of the Amazon jungle.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Playing with Fire (EN)
A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature, when a Frenchman joins and claims that he sees a unicorn in it.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Leather Funnel (EN)
Lionel Dacre is a young man who lives in a small house in Paris. Because of his large interest in the occult, Dacre has gathered a huge library of occult literature and many mysterious items. One of these items is a leather funnel next to which the young man sleeps. The strange thing is that in his dreams, Lionel can see exactly how the funnel has been used.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Speckled Band (EN)
Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She is afraid that her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, may be trying to kill her. Helen’s sister died mysteriously two years earlier, right before her own wedding. Her last words, which Helen never managed to decipher were "The speckled band".
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B. J. Harrison Reads When the World Screamed (EN)
The three scientist Mr. Edward Malone, Mr. Peerless Jones and Professor Challenger come together to build a machine that can drill deep into the earth. When the machine’s construction is finally completed the drilling starts, and it will not stop until the earth’s mantle is reached. Everything goes well for the three men, until they reach something into the earth that threatens to destroy their excavation.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Captain of the Pole Star (EN)
While in the middle of the arctic ocean, Captain Nicholas Craigie decides to cast anchor. His crew, however, is afraid that the ship will be trapped in the ice, which would lead to everyone's inevitable death, but the captain is unwavering. Suddenly, one morning, the second mate reports that he has seen a ghost during the night.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Silver Blaze (EN)
Sherlock Holmes is at the stables of Colonel Ross in Dartmoor. He has an especially important mission to investigate the disappearance of Silver Blaze, titular horse and a famous winner. It is not enough that the champion is gone, but his trainer, John Straker, has apparently been murdered. After carefully examining the crime scene, Holmes follows the horse’s footprints to the neighbor stables, where he tries to get more information from Silas Brown.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Red-Headed League (EN)
Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker with ginger hair, pays a visit to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. He tells them about his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, who has advised Wilson to respond to an urgent job advertisement in the local newspaper. The very next morning the pawnbroker is interviewed and hired.
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Dobrodružství na moři i na souši
Nechme se okouzlit vypravěčským mistrovstvím Arthura Conana Doylea, jehož dílo vyzařuje žíznivou zvědavost, roznícenou fantazii i neuhasitelnou touhu po lepším světě, což ho jednoznačně vřazuje do jednadvacátého století.
Tento druhý svazek zahrnuje Doyleovy prózy s dobrodružnými náměty, a to v moderním a jiskřivém českém překladu, přičemž některé z těchto próz vycházejí česky vůbec poprvé. Doyle se intenzivně zajímal o tajemné události a jevy, takže reagoval i na záhadné zmizení americké lodi Marie Celeste, jež byla nalezena roku 1872 opuštěná u Azorských ostrovů za okolností, o nichž se dodnes pouze spekuluje. O vysvětlení se Doyle pokusil v povídce Zpráva J. Habakuka Jephsona. Dalším nevšedním tvůrčím počinem je Vězňova obhajoba, která tvoří pandán ke známé holmesovské povídce Poslední poklona, v níž se Sherlock Holmes ve službách vlasti ujímá role falešného špiona.
Třetí svazek, jenž vyjde s několikaměsíčním odstupem, ponese název Doktoři a další vědci. Čtyřdílnou Doyleovskou sérii uzavřeme novým překladem slavného Psa baskervillského, jehož vydání doprovodí působivé dobové ilustrace.
