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.

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.

A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.

An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.

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.

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.

Lestrade consults Holmes when a number of busts of Napoleon are smashed at various locations around London.

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

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.

A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose.

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

A potentially explosive letter has been stolen. The police know who has it - but where he has it remains a mystery.

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

Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.