Sherlock Holmes:

The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in 1902, is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous Sherlock Holmes novels. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances on the desolate Devonshire moor, with enormous paw prints found near...

The Adventure of the Black Peter is a story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Retired whaling captain Peter Carey—nicknamed “Black Peter” for his savage temper—is found brutally murdered, harpooned through the chest inside his locked garden shed one...

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the most memorable and morally complex tales in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Charles Augustus Milverton is London’s most notorious and repulsive blackmailer, who ruins lives by extorting money...

The Adventure of Silver Blaze, published in 1892, is a classic Sherlock Holmes short story set on the bleak Dartmoor countryside. Just days before a major race, the celebrated racehorse Silver Blaze vanishes from his stable, and the horse’s trainer is...

The Adventure of the Dying Detective, published in 1913, is a short story in which Dr. Watson is urgently summoned to 221B Baker Street to find Sherlock Holmes apparently dying of a rare and highly contagious Eastern disease. Holmes, weak and...

The Adventure of the Empty House is the story that marks Sherlock Holmes’s dramatic return to London after his presumed death at the Reichenbach Falls. Three years after the event, Holmes suddenly appears in Watson’s study disguised as an elderly...

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter is a tense story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Cambridge rugby star Godfrey Staunton, known as the “missing three-quarter,” vanishes on the eve of a crucial match against Oxford, leaving his team in...

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is a short story published in 1893 in which Sherlock Holmes recounts one of his earliest cases to Watson. Reginald Musgrave, an old university acquaintance, consults Holmes after his clever but arrogant butler,...

After a draining case on the Continent, Holmes recuperates at a friend’s house near Reigate, where a nearby burglary is quickly followed by the shooting of a coachman. Holmes treats the two crimes as connected and focuses on a scrap of a torn note...

In The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Inspector Lestrade consults Sherlock Holmes about a peculiar series of incidents--someone is smashing plaster busts of Napoleon across London. The first bust is destroyed in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two more,...

In The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, a classic tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Violet Smith, a young music teacher, seeks Holmes’s help because a mysterious bearded man on a bicycle silently follows her every Saturday as she cycles from...

In The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes is hired by a young clerk, Hall Pycroft, who has been lured from a solid London job by a suspiciously generous offer from a new firm. The “employer,” who looks uncannily like Pycroft, sends him to...

The Adventure of the Three Students is a clever, university-set story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While staying in Cambridge, Holmes is consulted by Hilton Soames, a tutor whose rooms were broken into the night before a major Greek scholarship...