Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler. Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply. Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding. When Mr. Charles McCarthy is shot in a wood near Boscombe Pool, all (circumstantial) evidence appears to point at his son. But Holmes has doubts. Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail. Holmes goes in search of a missing man, last seen, by his wife, looking agitated in the second floor window above a seedy opium den. A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose. A woman dies at night in a locked room, crying out in pain: 'It was the band! The speckled band!'. Holmes investigates. A man arrives at Dr Watson's house with a severed thumb - an injury which apparently occurred in the most unusual circumstances. Holmes investigates when the Californian bride-to-be of Lord St. Simon goes missing just before the wedding. Holmes helps a banker from whom some expensive gems, taken as security on a loan to an important client, have been stolen. A young lady asks Holmes' advice as to whether she should accept an excellent appointment as a governess even though it comes with an unusual condition attached. |
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