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.

Up-and-coming detective Stanley Hopkins consults Holmes about the apparently motiveless murder of the secretary of an old professor.

Holmes investigates the disappearance of the top player in the Cambridge University Rugby team on the eve of a match against Oxford.

Holmes is called in to investigate the murder of Sir Eustace Brackenstall, apparently during a burglary.

The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.

When the favorite for the Wessex Cup disappears and his trainer murdered, Holmes travels to Dartmoor to investigate.

A man seeks Holmes' advice when his wife's odd behaviour leads him to suspect she is hiding a terrible secret.

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.

A trip to the country, supposedly for a rest, lead Holmes into a mystery involving an apparently random burglary and the murder of a coachman.

Holmes investigates the murder of a popular and apparently happily married Colonel.

A reputable doctor comes to Holmes for advice when a mysterious benefactor, resident at his clinic, becomes paranoid about the security of the clinic building.

An interpreter seeks Holmes' advice after being abducted and forced to translate a conversation with a bound and gagged man. A story that also involves Sherlock's even more observant brother, Mycroft Holmes.