Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes volume 4
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English
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A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo exhibition requests Sherlock Holmes' immediate assistance after she discovers a dead man in her bedroom.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 35
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English
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Malcolm MacGregan seeks Holmes's assistance in solving the mystery of a ghost who never fails to prevent the sale of an ancestral painting.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 39
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English
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A chemist is accused of murdering his fiance's stepfather who was determined to keep the two apart. Although there is evidence pointing towards the chemist's guilt, Holmes is summoned by the old man's housekeeper to investigate the case.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 12
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English
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When Holmes meets an injured man carrying an unconscious woman, he discovers that the man is an engineer who was hired by another man to fix a large hydraulic press, but upon arriving to tackle the job, things did not go as planned.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 22
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English
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Holmes is summoned to a school in Belgium to investigate a student who has a monthly habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church. What is concerning is that, shortly afterwards, the faculty are found dead.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 38
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English
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While walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article soon takes on further meaning, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim was found close to where Watson found the tooth.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 29
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English
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While Holmes and Watson are away from London on vacation, someone has taken the opportunity to impersonate Holmes - to a great profit.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 19
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English
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When Sherlock Holmes suspiciously disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade begin a search that leads them to a small, unassuming shop.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 14
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English
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A translator named Dubec tells Holmes that he was kidnapped and forced to translate for a Frenchman who was being tortured as the parties involved attempted to compel the man to sign some papers, something the man refused to do.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 31
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English
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After Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his castle, a clause inserted into his will firmly requests that his death only be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Testing reveals traces of arsenic in Farnsworth's body, and suspects abound.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 30
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English
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After a notorious criminal is killed by a milk-wagon, Lestrade finds a coded message in the man's clothing, and asks Holmes to decipher it. The investigation leads Holmes to assume the dead man's identity and travel all the way to Paris.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 36
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English
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Watson is led to believe that Holmes is a criminal mastermind. But all is not as it seems.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 24
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English
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After a boy flees his compartment on a train, he suddenly disappears into thin air. Although his governess believes that he has simply run away, Holmes has other suspicions. Holmes' inquiry into the matter leads him to a nearby circus.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 10
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English
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Sherlock Holmes tracks down a criminal who uses a young girl to lure victims into empty houses, where they are then murdered.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 27
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English
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When Russell Partridge tells his wife Janet that he murdered his six previous wives, and that she has one day before the same fate will befall her, Janet finds no assistance anywhere, except with Holmes and Watson, who set into action.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 32
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English
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A condemned man that is scheduled to hang the following day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 37
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English
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A boy asks Holmes to help him find his missing father. Upon further investigation, it is revealed that the man is a gambler, and is currently on the run from his creditors. Holmes and Watson soon enter the seedy underworld of gambling.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 33
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English
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A political leader is blackmailed. To find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a marriage bureau. However, things do not go quite as planned, and Holmes ends up arrested and thrown into jail.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 20
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English
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A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball intending only to draw attention to a local cause she supports. When the bomb is switched with a real croquet ball, it explodes upon use, killing a member of Parliament.