Petr Macek

Spring 1937. While German Chancellor Adolf Hitler ceaselessly talks of peace, his actions seem deliberately calculated to make the Western allies lose patience. The schizophrenic geopolitical atmosphere even can be felt as far away as Fulworth, England, the home of the retired Sherlock Holmes, where the Steiners, a German migrant couple, have recently found a refuge and have assumed care of the detective's household after the passing of Mrs Hudson. Spying and detective work are far from the thoughts of beekeeping enthusiast Holmes, but the suicide of his protEgE - a local youth whose natural talent the detective developed and encouraged for ten years - is a heavy blow. The death without apparent motive has now pulled Holmes back into the world, which has changed dramatically. Steam power has given way to electricity, carriages have been replaced by automobiles, and the skies are dotted with giant airships. The only thing that has remained constant is evil, in the shape of an enemy with whom Holmes first tangled more than forty years ago...

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

Europe 1911. The Great Powers vie for influence and are divided by political quarrels. War is in the air. For retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who has just suffered a coronary, these distant matters are of little concern. But politics are about to turn his quiet country life upside down. Mycroft, the detective's politician brother, has asked Holmes to investigate the murder of a powerful industrialist and the mysterious kidnapping of the King's nephew. Could these two cases be connected? Thus the legendary detective and his old friend Watson set out on an all-new adventure, one that will take them from the canals of Venice to an ancient castle in the Scottish plains. It's an adventure they could hardly have expected as they near the ripe old age of sixty. Will Holmes lose a lifelong friend? And which villain from Holmes's past might want to start a world war...?

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cold-Served Revenge

Geoffrey Chew

Mikuláš Bek

Socialist Realism and Music

Podzim roku 1903 nebyl pro Sherlocka Holmese příznivý. Navíc zemřela Irena Adlerová, jeho platonická láska, a snad i díky tomu Holmes opět propadl své závislosti na kokainu. Aby vytrhnul přítele ze spárů opiátu, doktor Watson detektiva přiměje zabývat se případem zdánlivě banálního sňatkového podvodu. Slibuje si od něj, že Holmesovi pomůže překonat chmury a myšlenkový útlum, do kterého se s kokainem dostal. Záhy se však ukazuje, že pozadí případu obyčejného podvodníčka má mnohem závažnější pozadí, vedoucí až na starý kontinent. A zesláblý Holmes se tak díky němu nakonec musí v dalekých Čechách postavit nepříteli grotesknějšímu a děsivějšímu, než jakého si kdy mohl představit. Pražští židé, rozrušení nálezem mrtvoly na hrobě rabiho Löwa, mu říkají Golem...

Golemův stín

Reichenbach was not his deepest fall.... Autumn 1903 has not been kind to Sherlock Holmes. Irene Adler, his platonic love, is dead, and the detective has again fallen into the clutches of cocaine. Dr Watson hopes that the distraction of a marriage fraud case can help pull his friend out of his depression. But it soon becomes clear that behind the apparently banal crime lurks something much more sinister, something that will take Holmes and Watson to faraway Bohemia, where they must face an unimaginably terrible enemy. A corpse has been discovered on the grave of Rabbi Loew and Prague's Jews are whispering about the Golem...

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