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.

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.

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.

A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre.

Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and a (particularly) gruesome murder.

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