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Holmes und Watson informieren sich über den genauen Ablauf des Konklaves, um auf etwaige Schwierigkeiten reagieren zu können. Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Verschwörer womöglich ein Sprengstoffattentat planen.

The Anglican Priest from Teddington visits, as promised, the Abbey. Their meeting, however, is overshadowed by another death.

Inspector Lestrade brings Holmes and Watson to Twickenham, where they investigate a murder case in the convent. If they can even make it there.

Holmes and Watson begin with their investigation. They visit the crime scene, the victims dorm room and inspect the body. In the process Holmes makes a discovery.

Holmes und Watson erreichen Italien. Am Bahnhof von Verona gibt es jedoch aufgrund lokaler Auseinandersetzungen vorerst kein Weiterkommen, was Holmes zu einer gewagten Maßnahme veranlasst.

When the Librarian is murdered too, Holmes is at a loss at first. But then he finds a book at the crime scene, with contents that could profoundly question Christian faith.

December in Baker Street, Watson is trying to fill the house with the Christmas Spirit but his plans are soon crushed, when Inspector Lestrade proposes a strange case to Holmes.

Bei der Zusammenkunft im Petersdom fehlt einer der Kardinäle, der offenkundig von den Verschwörern entführt wurde. Zunächst gibt es keine Spur, doch dann kann der inhaftierte Schweizergardist Müller einen brauchbaren Hinweis liefern.

Holmes, Watson und der Kommandant der Schweizergarde finden das geheime Versteck der Verschwörer und planen einen Überraschungsangriff. Es kommt zu einem Feuergefecht im Keller des Hauses - mit tödlichem Ausgang.

With the help of the priest, Watson investigates Brother Emanuel's abandoned house, where he makes a vital discovery. The Blizzard, however, still keeps him from going back to the Abbey.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden ins Wachsfigurenmuseum der Familie Tussaud gerufen. In der Kammer des Schreckens befindet sich neben den Modellen auch eine echte menschliche Leiche, deren Herkunft rätselhaft ist.

Auf der Reise zur Weltausstellung in Antwerpen lernt David Tristram, Sherlock Holmes' treuer Weggefährte, den Brüsseler Juwelier Jan Peeters kennen, da die Koffer der beiden Männer im Gepäckwagen vertauscht wurden. Wenige Tage später wird die Leiche des Juweliers aus dem Wasser der Schelde gefischt, und Holmes eilt aus seinem Exil in Paris herbei, um Licht in die mysteriösen Todesumstände des Belgiers zu bringen.

Nicht einen Moment glaubt der berühmte Privatdetektiv Sherlock Holmes daran, dass es sich bei den irrlichternden Phantomen, die angeblich die Ostsee-Insel Hiddensee heimsuchen, um die Geister der Wikinger handelt, deren Goldschatz vierzig Jahre zuvor ebendort gefunden wurde. Dennoch nimmt er den Auftrag des Museums in Stralsund an, in dem der spektakuläre Goldfund verwahrt wird.

"The Reigate Squires" was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

A few days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes is confronted with a peculiar case. No other than the Ghost of Christmas Past is blackmailing the moneylender Jacob Marley. He is supposed to pay £ 10, 000 or he will never see his dogs again. Holmes and Watson take the lead.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair - whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St.

"The Problem of Thor Bridge" is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine. Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated his wife very badly.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.