Just as he is about to be arrested for the murder of a client, a young lawyer pays a visit on Holmes and begs him to help prove his innocence.
A man seeks Holmes' advice after his wife becomes terrified at the appearance of a series of drawings of dancing men.
An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.
Lestrade consults Holmes when a number of busts of Napoleon are smashed at various locations around London.
A professor at a top university seeks Holmes'
help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam.
The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.
A young clerk lands what appears to be an ideal job - but soon begins to suspect he may be part of an elaborate trick.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
The first case Holmes ever solved - while at university, he helps out a friend who's father is dying of nervousness following a visit from an ex-shipmate who seems to hold some power over him.
A university friend asks Holmes to help explain the disappearance of a butler shortly after he had been discovered taking an interest in a strange family ritual.
Holmes comes to the aid of a civil servant who has fallen on hard times following the theft of an important treaty placed in his care.
Holmes reveals the existence of a single organiser behind half the crime in London - an evil genius named Professor Moriarty - and soon finds himself in mortal danger.
Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
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.
