Philip J. Carraher Bücher

The rich and mighty have their games too.What corruptions running rampant in this country needed to be scoured and washed to cleanliness or, in some cases, flushed entirely away? The country was being tainted, more so every day, and so had to be protected from injury. A few must have the courage, the fortitude, the will, to step into the breach, to fight the good fight.From out of the womb of that thought, from out of the concept of an organization devoted to condemning the ills of society and striving to correct them, came to be born The Killing League.With its members' vast amounts of money, and with their combined audacity, the League placed itself as the clandestine supreme authority of determining what was right for America and what was wrong for it, granting itself the supremacy of eliminating the wrong. They accepted no boundaries to their authority. Indeed, why should they? Grant onto Caesar that which is Caesar's.And let the killing begin.But no one said you couldn't have fun while doing it...

'With great disbelief Cornelius J. Watson, a descendent of Doctor John H. Watson and his wife, Mary, nee Marsden, held the yellowed, dog-eared manuscript in his hands.'Thus we are introduced to one of the greatest finds of the new millennium, the discovery of a manuscript of Doctor Watson's; the finding of a previously lost adventure of the greatest detective ever to exist, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.All Holmes' fans can rejoice in the discovery. The Adventure of the Dead Rabbits Society is Holmes at his best.

Sherlock Holmes was often heard to lament the lack of cleverness on the part of the criminal class of London. In Alias Simon Hawkes that lament is vanquished. Here are presented four of the most uniquely clever crimes of murder to ever cross Holmes' path.In 'The Adventure of the Magic Alibi' a killer is sworn by many witnesses to be in their presence at the time of a murder, and so incapable of having killed at the same time, although none of the witnesses actually saw him with them at the time. How is this possible? And how can Holmes break the strength of the magic alibi?In 'The Adventure of the Glass Room' Holmes is presented with the first ever 'locked room within a locked room' mystery, an ingenious tale that is certain to become a mystery classic. Also Alias Simon Hawkes offers us 'The Adventure of the Talking Ghost' and 'The Adventure of the Captive Forger'. Here altogether are four astoundingly clever tales of mystery and suspense that will amply display the great detective's renowned powers of observation and deduction. Sit back, read and enjoy.