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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.
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 comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.
A woman dies at night in a locked room, crying out in pain: 'It was the band! The speckled band!'. Holmes investigates.
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 brilliant scientist who believes that machines can think creates something dangerous in his workshop.
A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard.
The story of a frantic chase, an apathetic crowd and a machete.
A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters.
An old man, his memory failing, searches for the grave of his lost love.
The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero.
By a stagnant lagoon, as his love lies dying, Arsat tells the story of their meeting and the price he had to pay to be with her.
Alone on his seventy-sixth birthday, Jim Brennen remembers the love of his life.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
