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With his devoted Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil, including the diabolical Professor Moriarty.

Dr. Percy Trevelyon, a young neurologist, seeks Holmes' help. Two years earlier, he agreed to a strange deal with Mr. Blessington, who furnished a house and paid all expenses so Trevelyon could start his practice. Blessington, who has heart trouble, lives there as a permanent patient and takes most of the doctor's earnings. Though Trevelyon has become successful, something about the arrangement worries him, prompting Holmes to investigate.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - The Hound of the Baskervilles. In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

Nathan Heller is Chicago’s most celebrated private detective, hobnobbing with Hugh Hefner, getting written up in Life magazine, enjoying the fruits of a long career that began in a one-room office and now is a coast-to-coast agency. When he does a small favor for a friend - who handles PR for the Teamsters - Heller runs into an old West Side mob crony, a small-time hustler named Jack Ruby. And when that friend is found dead, warning signals start to flash. Suddenly Jimmy Hoffa wants to talk to Nate...and so does Hoffa’s arch enemy, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - "The Hound of the Baskervilles". In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - The Hound of the Baskervilles. In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is the second published collection of short stories featuring the famous consulting detective and his friend and colleague Dr. Watson.

'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 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 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 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 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 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 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.