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A man seeks Holmes' advice when his wife's odd behaviour leads him to suspect she is hiding a terrible secret.
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.
A man arrives at Dr Watson's house with a severed thumb - an injury which apparently occurred in the most unusual circumstances.
Rupert becomes increasingly hateful towards his incompetent brother-in-law to be.
Every night Staley Fleming wakes and sees in his room, intently watching him, a big black Newfoundland dog.
A woman interacts with the world through her polaroid photographs of stranger's houses. Contains adult material.
A young engineer is charged with transporting secret documents across the English channel - but criminal elements are on his trail and things soon start to go wrong.
A family with an unusual method of transporting large quantities of money cause problems for a young man holidaying in Italy.
An Irish traveller leaves his clan and tries to make it in Dublin. Contains strong language.
While a search for a missing child goes on, a father travels to pick up his daughter from the airport. Contains adult subject matter.
Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
The story of Sump Stevenson, an optimist and coal miner.
Threatening notes are sent to a brilliant inventor, apparently from a former rival for the affections of a young lady.
The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.
A young boy heads to the pond to go fishing but catches something much bigger along the way.
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.
