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

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 goes in search of a missing man, last seen, by his wife, looking agitated in the second floor window above a seedy opium den.

Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.

Just as he is about to be arrested for the murder of a client, a young lawyer pays a visit on Holmes and begs him to help prove his innocence.

A man seeks Holmes' advice after his wife becomes terrified at the appearance of a series of drawings of dancing men.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

The headmaster of an exclusive boarding school persuades Holmes to track down the abducted son of a wealthy duke.

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.