Crime

The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head.

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

An interpreter seeks Holmes' advice after being abducted and forced to translate a conversation with a bound and gagged man. A story that al

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.

The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.

Holmes helps a banker from whom some expensive gems, taken as security on a loan to an important client, have been stolen.

Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo.

A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ...

A university friend asks Holmes to help explain the disappearance of a butler shortly after he had been discovered taking an interest in a s

A potentially explosive letter has been stolen. The police know who has it - but where he has it remains a mystery.

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

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 innocenc