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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.

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in May 1892. A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham, makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves a beryl coronet - one of the most valuable public possessions in existence - as collateral.

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.

"The Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation.

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.

THE SIGN OF THE TOOTH: A BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG WOMAN ENTERS 221B BAKER STREET. HER FATHER, HIS CLOSEST FRIEND, AND A YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT HAVE ALL DIED IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS Each body was found soon after death but with rigor mortis already set in. She believes they were murdered and seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery that led to their deaths began fifteen hundred years ago when the sacred tooth of the Buddha was brought to Ceylon. Since then it has never left the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy where it has been guarded and worshiped.

The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place is the last of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is part of the series The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in the Strand Magazine from October 1921-April 1927. The original title "The Adventure of the Black Spaniel" was changed before publication. Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad.

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.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.

"The Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement.

"The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" (1927), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated.

"The Adventure of the Three Gables" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected as one of 12 in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1926 as a serial. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow.

Las cinco semillas de naranja es uno de los 56 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fue publicado originalmente en The Strand Magazine y posteriormente recogido en la colección Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. Las cinco semillas de naranja pertenece a las historias solo aclaradas en parte por Sherlock Holmes, ya que, al menos en apariencia, los culpables sucumben, sin poder, por tanto, confirmar la teoría del detective.

Er war im Lager als der »Pastor« Elias Hopkins bekannt, aber man wusste allgemein, dass dies nur ein Ehrentitel war, den er seinen vielen hervorragenden Eigenschaften verdankte, und dass er auf ihn keinen Anspruch erheben konnte, den er auf eine amtliche Ordination hätte stützen können. Doch, um ihm Gerechtigkeit widerfahren zu lassen: er behauptete niemals, das er für sein Amt irgendwelche Studien absolviert oder kirchliche Qualifikation erhalten habe.

Dieser historische Kriminalroman spielt zu Zeiten Napoleons. Er erzählt die Geschichte von Luis de Laval, der nach dem Tod seines Vaters zu seinem Onkel nach Frankreich reist und dort an der französichen Küste in einen Kriminalfall verwickelt wird.

Zum Teufel auch! dachte ich; denn Herr Dickson, der Odessaer Agent von Bailey & Cie., Kornhändler, hatte ein gutes Stück von tartarischem Wesen an sich, wie ich zu meinem eigenen Schaden erfahren habe. Was zum Kuckuck will er denn von mir? fragte ich meinen Kollegen.

Ich bin unglücklicherweise sehr nervös veranlagt. Schon als ich noch ein Junge war, bildete eine ausgesprochene Vorliebe für die Einsamkeit einen meiner hervorstechendsten Charakterzüge; dieser krankhafte Hang wurde durch das sesshafte Leben des Schriftstellers nur noch verstärkt. Als ich auf dem Quarterdeck des Ozeandampfers stand, fluchte ich weidlich auf die Notwendigkeit, die mich zwang, das Land meiner Vorfahren wieder aufzusuchen.

Bradhursts Laden war geschlossen; in der kleinen Hinterstube sah es diese Nacht sehr behaglich aus. Das Feuer warf einen rötlichen Schein auf Decke und Wände, welcher sich heiter an den Pulverhörnern und Gewehren spiegelte, die ringsum aufgehängt waren. Doch auf den beiden Männern, die am kleinen Ofen saßen, lastete ein Schatten, den weder das Feuer noch die schwarze Flasche auf dem Tische zu verscheuchen im Stande waren.