Story & Timeline
18 entries in the Sherlock Holmes compendium.
The Five Orange PipsFive seeds foretold a death that even the world's greatest detective could not stop.The Adventure of the Priory SchoolA duke's missing heir, a dead schoolmaster and the tracks of cows that were never there.His Last BowA 1917 anthology concluding with Holmes' war service, first printed in Collier's on 22 September 1917.A Scandal in BohemiaThe one woman who ever bested the Great Detective.The Red-Headed LeagueFour pounds a week for copying out an encyclopaedia hides a tunnel dug towards a bank vault.Silver BlazeA missing racehorse, a dead trainer, and the clue of a dog that did not bark.The Blue CarbuncleA stolen jewel hidden in a goose leads to Christmas mercy over punishment.The Man with the Twisted LipA missing man, a twisted face, and a disguise that fooled the great detective.The Adventure of the Speckled BandAt Stoke Moran, a deadly secret passes through a ventilator.The Valley of FearA vengeful secret society from America hunts a man hiding in the English countryside.The Adventure of the Dying DetectiveA master of disguise plays his deadliest hand: faking a fatal illness to trap a murderer.The Adventure of the Dancing MenA cryptic cipher in stick figures leads to murder, solved by the world's greatest detective.The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansMissing submarine plans and a body beside the Underground tracks.The Boscombe Valley MysteryHolmes clears a son accused of killing his father beside Boscombe Pool.The Adventure of the Six NapoleonsSomeone is smashing plaster busts of Napoleon all over London.The Adventure of the Musgrave RitualHolmes decodes a family ritual and finds a lost crown.The Adventure of the Second StainHolmes recovers a stolen letter that could start a war.The Adventure of the Norwood BuilderA builder fakes his own murder to frame a young lawyer.
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