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'The Adventure of the Dancing Men' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is sent a series of strange letters by a client to decipher; on them are strange sequences of little dancing stick figures.

'The Adventure of the Empty House' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Some time has passed since 'The Adventure of the Final Problem', and Holmes is spurred back into action when he suspects that a young gambler has been killed by a surviving lieutenant of Moriarty, the criminal mastermind of his prior case.

'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes works towards solving a case involving the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton - a key player at Overton's rugby union team.

'The Adventure of the Second Stain' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is presented with one of his most consequential cases to date, by the Prime Minister himself. A document has been stolen, which if divulged could bring about war.

'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is brought a peculiar problem about a man who destroys plaster busts of Napoleon.

'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a peculiar case involving Miss Violet Smith, whose life took an unusual turn when two men arrived from South Africa declaring that they had known her recently deceased uncle. The pair offer Violet a job as a live-in music teacher, but things go awry when they make unwanted advances on her, and she notices that she is often followed by a strange man on a bicycle.

'The Adventure of the Priory School' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. A school principal presents Holmes with an unusual problem - the disappearance of the 10-year-old Lord Saltire and the German master Heidegger.

'The Adventure of the Crooked Man' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes invites Watson to witness the final stage of an investigation. A colonel is dead, and his wife is considered the prime suspect. While all the signs seem to point to her, Sherlock seems to think otherwise.

'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson reveives a letter from an old friend, now a Foreign Office employee, who had an important naval treaty stolen from his office. Watson refers the problem to Holmes, who takes to the case with considerable interest....

'The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes finds his services are needed when Watson takes him to a friend's estate in Surrey. After hearing about a burglary in a nearby estate and a murder in another, Holmes is presented with just one clue: a torn piece of paper with only a few words on it.

'The Adventure of the Gloria Scott' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This story pertains to Sherlock's earliest case, recounted by Watson. Back in his university days, Holmes endeavours to solve the mystery behind his friend's father's death by decoding a secret note.

'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this frame tale, Holmes recounts the events of a particular case he worked on in relation to a university acquantance, whose domestic staff vanished after secretly reading a family document. The document was in fact a riddle, which - in order to understand the peculiarities of the case - Holmes must solve.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the renowned detective. This collection includes: 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League', 'A Case of Identity', 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery', 'The Five Orange Pips', 'The Man with the Twisted Lip', 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle', 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb', 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor', and 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches'.

'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson encounter a young woman who feels mortally threatened by her stepfather. She tells of her twin sister's mysterious and untimely death two years earlier - and her dying words, "The speckled band!" What does it all mean? Holmes agrees to take the case.

'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It comes to light that Holmes has a brother called Mycroft - one with a brilliant mind like his own. Unable to solve a case, Mycroft asks Sherlock to look into it.

'The Adventure of the Yellow Face' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is visited by a man who shares a story about how his wife has decieved him, adding that her motives remain mysterious to him. Holmes agrees to take on the case.

'The Adventure of the Final Problem' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes goes head to head with a criminal mastermind whom he regards as his only intellectual equal.

'The Adventure of the Resident Patient' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doctor Trevelyan has landed in a peculiar business arrangement, whereby a man named Blessington has provided him with a prestigious address to practice in return for three-quarters of his income. After a series of strange happenings, Blessington has become increasingly paranoid and agitated, causing the doctor to present the problem to Holmes.

'The Adventure of the Silver Blaze' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson travel to Dartmoor to get to the bottom of a peculiar case that involves the dissapearance of Silver Blaze - a great racehorse - and the murder of his trainer.

'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a peculiar case which entails the disappearance of Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage.