Cora Blyke met Tom Burroughs under very unusual circumstances. At night she tried to get into her sister's locked house through the window. The owner of a ne...

...Holmes fascinates not only with what he knows, but also with what he does not know. A know-it-all character would be predictable and boring. The genius of...

Sherlock Holmes, history's first - and most famous - private detective, appeared before readers more than one hundred and twenty years ago. But not all the a...

H.G. Wells is the main character in the following Sherlock Holmes story, which is very reminiscent of a science fiction novel.

The accompanist of the great Sarasate, having struck the last note of the concert, was shot at the piano... How is this daring murder connected with the stat...

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the greatest American writer of the 19th century. His scary stories, parables and fairy tales surprised and amazed his contempo...

In the originality of staging his own death, no one can compare with Sherlock Holmes, who, after his imaginary death at the Reichenbach Falls, wandered the w...

The Parker family left the “Nursery on Royal Street” for a week and went to rest in a small village on the sea coast. But even here there were some amazing a...

People often feel like they are making their own choices, striving for a specific goal. The heroes of the novel think so too. But gradually they realize that...

If Pushkin is the first love of reading Russia, then Yesenin is its last love. It would seem an enviable fate. But it is not for nothing that Yesenin himself...

Old heroes we have loved since childhood are experiencing new adventures that reveal their images in the new, modern world.

The Bible is a book in which everything is for the first time. Someone cries, someone laughs, someone is hated, someone is loved, and all this is for the fir...