A young clerk lands what appears to be an ideal job - but soon begins to suspect he may be part of an elaborate trick.

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.

A woman dies at night in a locked room, crying out in pain: 'It was the band! The speckled band!'. Holmes investigates.

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.

Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.

Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.

The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero.