A suicidal playwright, finding himself unable to do the deed on his own, attempts an unconventional method involving the confession of a dark secret from his past.

Suzanne stays at the bedside of her dying sister, who she has lived with her whole life.

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

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.

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

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

Confined to a room in an exclusive club during an important dinner, Father Brown notices some unusual sounding footsteps.

An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on a moving train.

In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.

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.