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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

An artist returns from Europe a changed man after a frightening experience involving a mysterious woman and a rotting banjo.

A man falls in love with the sister of a ruined landowner, a predatory woman turned cold by a lust for money and status.

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.

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

The story - so fully realised that many took it to be true - of a young soldier who curses his country and is sentenced never to set foot in

The headmaster of an exclusive boarding school persuades Holmes to track down the abducted son of a wealthy duke.

A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre.

A former mental patient and a deformed eccentric conspire in a fantastic plot.

Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.

When Mr. Charles McCarthy is shot in a wood near Boscombe Pool, all (circumstantial) evidence appears to point at his son. But Holmes has do

When an American minister buys Canterville Chase, a long term resident's life (or death) is thrown into turmoil.