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A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose.

With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappear

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

On a wet and windy night, three strangers turn up at a young girl's christening party.

A renowned judge recalls a youthful adventure in Venice that began with an encounter with the beautiful Polixena Cador.

A penniless man is bet that he can't survive for a month - starting and ending with nothing but an implausible, but real, £1,000,000 note.

An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.

A spectacular party is thrown in honour of the Infanta of Spain's birthday; there are actors, jugglers, magicians - and a dancing dwarf. A

A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds

Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.

Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature.