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The Adventure Of The Second Stain
The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.
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A Scandal In Bohemia
Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
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23
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The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
A woman dies at night in a locked room, crying out in pain: 'It was the band! The speckled band!'. Holmes investigates.
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The Man with the Watches
An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on a moving train.
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12
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The New Catacomb
In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.
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14
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The Reigate Puzzle
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.
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20
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The Musgrave Ritual
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.
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20
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A Case of Identity
Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.
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19
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The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons
Lestrade consults Holmes when a number of busts of Napoleon are smashed at various locations around London.
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21
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The Man With The Twisted Lip
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.
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The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet
Holmes helps a banker from whom some expensive gems, taken as security on a loan to an important client, have been stolen.
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26
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The Japanned Box
While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter.
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13
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The Adventure Of The Empty House
Several years after the events described in 'The Final Problem', Dr Watson takes an interest in the murder of Ronald Adair who was shot in a locked second floor room.
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16
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The Horror of the Heights
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappearances.
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15
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The Black Doctor
When a popular local doctor is murdered, the angry brother of his ex-fiance seems the obvious suspect - until the doctor's uknown past begins to reveal itself.
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19
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The Greek Interpreter
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.
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18
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The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb
A man arrives at Dr Watson's house with a severed thumb - an injury which apparently occurred in the most unusual circumstances.
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23
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The Beetle-Hunter
A job advert with a bizarre set of requirements leads a young entomologist off on a mysterious adventure.
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17
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The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton
A young Lady employs Holmes to negotiate with London's most notorious blackmailer.
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The Adventure Of The Abbey Grange
Holmes is called in to investigate the murder of Sir Eustace Brackenstall, apparently during a burglary.
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The Adventure Of Black Peter
An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.
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22
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The Lost Special
The confession of a convicted killer sheds light on the disappearance of a mysterious Frenchman - along with the entire train he was travelling in.
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17
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The Yellow Face
A man seeks Holmes' advice when his wife's odd behaviour leads him to suspect she is hiding a terrible secret.
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20
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The Adventure Of The Golden Pince Nez
Up-and-coming detective Stanley Hopkins consults Holmes about the apparently motiveless murder of the secretary of an old professor.
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23
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The Case of Lady Sannox
A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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.
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The Five Orange Pips
Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.
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20
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The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist
After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her weekly cycle trips down a usually deserted road.
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The Resident Patient
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.
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The Naval Treaty
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.
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36
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The Adventure Of The Missing Three Quarter
Holmes investigates the disappearance of the top player in the Cambridge University Rugby team on the eve of a match against Oxford.
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22
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The Brazilian Cat
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.
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The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor
Holmes investigates when the Californian bride-to-be of Lord St. Simon goes missing just before the wedding.
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21
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Silver Blaze
When the favorite for the Wessex Cup disappears and his trainer murdered, Holmes travels to Dartmoor to investigate.
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24
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose.
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17
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The Adventure Of The Three Students
A professor at a top university seeks Holmes'
help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam.
help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam.
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The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder
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.
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25
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The Terror of Blue John Gap
A scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire.
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15
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The Stock Broker's Clerk
A young clerk lands what appears to be an ideal job - but soon begins to suspect he may be part of an elaborate trick.
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The Red-Headed League
Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.
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The Leather Funnel
Spending a night in the library of an old friend and scholar of the black arts, the narrator becomes curious about the object in question.
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The Adventure Of The Copper Beeches
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.
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25
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The Crooked Man
Holmes investigates the murder of a popular and apparently happily married Colonel.
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The Final Problem
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.
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The "Gloria Scott"
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.
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The Adventure Of The Dancing Men
A man seeks Holmes' advice after his wife becomes terrified at the appearance of a series of drawings of dancing men.
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25
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The Adventure Of The Priory School
The headmaster of an exclusive boarding school persuades Holmes to track down the abducted son of a wealthy duke.
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