Unerwartete Ereignisse machen diese elf Geschichten um den berühmten Meisterdetektiv und seinen Helfer Dr. Watson zu einem besonderen Lesevergnügen. Sherlock Holmes berichtet von seinem ersten Fall und verwickelt sich in ein verhängnisvolles Kräftemessen mit dem Verbrechergenie Professor Moriarty.
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
",,Gott kann es", sagt er. ,,Und ich, Viktor Frankenstein ... ich kann es auch. Was tot ist, erwecke ich zum Leben!" Nach jahrelangen Experimenten hat er es geschafft. Seine Kreatur steht vor ihm. ,,Du bist mein Vater", sagt das Mosnter. Und Viktor bekommt Angst ... ." -- back cover.
It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.