Holmes, his friend Watson (or his brother Mycroft) work to solve the mysteries of three gables, the dying detective, a golden pince-nez, the red circle, a mazarin stone, and a…

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all –…

Depending upon the real story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell’s Dance With a Stranger (1985) targets Ellis’s (Richardson) short lived relationship with motor-racing driver…

Gertrude Bell, essentially the most highly effective girl within the British Empire in her day, formed the future of Iraq after WWI in ways in which nonetheless reverberate at this…