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The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane by Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement, and be brought, as it were, to my very door. It occurred after my withdrawal to my little Sussex home,…
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The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Arthur Conan Doyle
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a bloodletting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves. I remember the date very well,…
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The Problem of Thor Bridge by Arthur Conan Doyle
Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, MD, Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which…
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The Adventure of the Three Gables by Arthur Conan Doyle
I don’t think that any of my adventures with Mr Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables. I had not seen Holmes for some days, and had no idea of the new channel into which his activities had been directed. He was in a…
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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me. ‘For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the…
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client by Arthur Conan Doyle
‘It can’t hurt now,’ was Mr Sherlock Holmes’s comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend’s career. Both Holmes and…
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The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone by Arthur Conan Doyle
It was pleasant to Dr Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal-scuttle,…
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His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Cardboard Box* The Adventure of the Red Circle The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans The Adventure of the Dying Detective The Disappearance of Lady Frances…
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The Problem of Thor Bridge The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire The Adventure of the Three Garridebs The Adventure of the Illustrious Client The…
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second collection of short stories featuring detective Sherlock Holmes, following The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of Silver Blaze The Adventure of the Cardboard Box The Adventure of the Yellow Face The Adventure of the…