The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, 'The Copper Beeches', they had become the mainstay of The Strand Magazine.
The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel, in which Holmes and his assistant Watson finally begin to understand the threat arch-nemesis Moriarty presents. When Holmes receives a tip-off from within Moriarty's circle that a man is in danger, he and Watson rush to the victim's house. They are too late. Yet certain suspicious circumstances around the death suggest that there is a greate…
Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamois Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they inversitgae the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors. The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for ge…
Sherlock Holmes was trying to solve a murder. But now he has a terrible illness, and he is not his normal self. Can his friend Watson help him? Can the strange Mr Culverton Smith help him? Or will Sherlock Holmes die?