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.

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.