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

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.

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.

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

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

Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of place.

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 the murder of a popular and apparently happily married Colonel.

The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.

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 investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.

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.

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