The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Watson visits Baker Street, and Holmes reads his week from his shoe.

Seventeen steps, and a note about a masked visitor.

The note’s paper names a country and its writer.

A giant in a mask calls, and will not stay unknown.

Irene Adler holds a photograph that could ruin a king.

In disguise, Holmes becomes a witness at a wedding.

Holmes lays his plan: she will show him herself.

A street brawl, a cry of fire, and a voice in the dark.

Briony Lodge is empty, but a letter waits for Holmes.

Holmes reads Jabez Wilson’s past from his hands; Wilson produces an odd advertisement.

Wilson tells of his shop and the assistant who urges him to try for the League’s post.

Wilson beats a crowd of red-headed men to the League’s post: £4 a week, copying a book.

For eight weeks Wilson copies the Britannica; then a card says the League is dissolved.

Holmes smokes over it, then examines Saxe-Coburg Square and the assistant’s trousers.

Holmes warns of a coming crime; at Baker Street Watson meets Jones and Mr. Merryweather.

Jones names the criminal John Clay; the party hides in a bank cellar full of French gold.

A stone lifts in the dark vault, and Holmes seizes John Clay as he climbs out.

Holmes explains how the League, the assistant and the cellar fit together.

Holmes says life outdoes invention; Miss Mary Sutherland arrives and he reads her at once.

Miss Sutherland tells of her stepfather, her income, and meeting Hosmer Angel at a ball.

Angel courts her in secret, makes her swear fidelity, then vanishes on the way to church.

Holmes decodes her clothes for Watson, then notes that even Angel’s signature is typed.

Windibank calls; Angel’s letters match his typewriter, and Holmes locks the door.

Holmes explains: Windibank posed as Angel to keep Mary’s money and keep her single.

Windibank flees; Holmes explains his clues and why he will not tell Miss Sutherland.

Holmes’s telegram sends Watson west to probe Charles McCarthy’s death by a lonely pool.

A girl sees father and son quarrel; the father is found dead and the son arrested.

At the inquest James McCarthy tells of a “Cooee”, a dying word “rat”, and something grey.

At Ross, Alice Turner begs Holmes to clear James McCarthy and explains the family quarrel.

Holmes seizes on John Turner’s mining past in Victoria, then visits James in gaol.

James hid a secret marriage; Holmes names two points; Lestrade dismisses it as moonshine.

At Boscombe Pool Holmes reads the ground like a hound and pockets a stone as the weapon.

Holmes sketches the killer, then shows that the dying word “rat” ends the name Ballarat.

John Turner admits Holmes’s charge and tells of his outlaw days as Black Jack of Ballarat.

Turner tells how McCarthy blackmailed him and what passed at the pool; Holmes spares him.

On a stormy night young John Openshaw seeks Holmes about his family’s mysterious troubles.

Openshaw’s uncle gets a letter of five orange pips, cries “K. K. K.”, and burns papers.

The uncle dies in a garden pool; John’s father then gets five pips and a sundial order.

The father dies in a chalk-pit; John gets five pips and shows Holmes a torn diary page.

Holmes tells Openshaw to leave the diary page on the sundial, then muses on postmarks.

Holmes links the pips to the Klan, but the paper reports Openshaw dead by Waterloo Bridge.

Holmes traces the barque Lone Star and posts five orange pips to its captain.

Kate Whitney begs Watson to fetch her opium-smoking husband from a Swandam Lane den.

Watson finds Holmes disguised in the den, sends Whitney home, and rides off with him.

Holmes tells of Neville St. Clair of Lee, last seen waving from a window above the den.

Mrs. St. Clair and police find his clothes, bloodstains and a beggar named Hugh Boone.

A coat stuffed with pennies is found in the river; Boone is held but the case stays open.

Mrs. St. Clair shows a letter in her husband’s hand, posted at Gravesend that day.

After a night smoking on a heap of cushions, Holmes says he holds the key to the case.

In the cells Holmes washes the sleeping beggar’s face and reveals Neville St. Clair.

St. Clair confesses that begging out-earned journalism; the police agree to hush it up.

Commissionaire Peterson finds a goose and a hat; Holmes treats the hat as a puzzle.

Holmes reads the hat’s owner; then Peterson bursts in with a blue gem from the goose.

Holmes names the gem, recalls John Horner’s arrest, and advertises for Henry Baker.

Baker claims his hat, takes a fresh goose, and says his bird came from the Alpha Inn.

Holmes bets a salesman a sovereign to learn who supplied the geese: Mrs. Oakshott.

Holmes takes a rat-faced man seeking the same geese to Baker Street; he is James Ryder.

Holmes shows Ryder the stone and lays out his guilt; Ryder tells how it went into a goose.

Ryder confesses the goose mix-up; Holmes lets him go, citing the season of forgiveness.

A terrified veiled woman arrives at dawn; Holmes reads her journey from mud and a ticket.

Helen Stoner describes her violent stepfather, Dr. Roylott, and her sister Julia’s death.

Julia hears a night whistle, then dies gasping “the speckled band”.

Helen now hears the whistle in Julia’s room; Holmes spots bruises on her wrist.

Roylott storms in and bends a poker; Holmes studies the will and goes down to Stoke Moran.

Holmes inspects the rooms and finds a dummy bell-rope and a ventilator into the next room.

In Roylott’s room Holmes notes a saucer of milk and a looped lash, then plans a watch.

Holmes and Watson sit in the dark bedroom until a gentle hissing; Holmes lashes out.

A scream sends them to Roylott’s room, where he sits dead, a swamp adder round his head.

Holmes admits his gipsy theory was wrong and explains how the snake reached Julia.

A guard delivers hydraulic engineer Victor Hatherley to Watson at dawn; his thumb is gone.

Watson dresses the wound, learns a cleaver did it, and takes Hatherley round to Holmes.

The thin Colonel Lysander Stark swears Hatherley to secrecy and offers fifty guineas.

Stark explains the job: a press for fuller’s-earth at Eyford, a late train, total silence.

Stark drives him through the night to a lonely house, where a frightened woman appears.

Ignoring her warning, Hatherley mends the press and finds it is no earth-digger.

Locked in with a descending press, he escapes by a panel; Stark’s cleaver takes his thumb.

Holmes finds a missing-engineer notice; on the train he circles the district on a map.

Holmes sets the house at the circle’s centre; they find it in flames and the gang gone.

Holmes receives a letter from Lord St. Simon; Watson gathers notices of his marriage.

Papers report the bride vanishing at her wedding breakfast and a dancer’s arrest.

Lord St. Simon tells of courting American heiress Hatty Doran and her dropped bouquet.

Lord St. Simon admits his past with Flora Millar; Holmes announces he has solved the case.

Lestrade finds a wedding dress in the Serpentine; Holmes studies a hotel bill in it.

Supper arrives; Holmes brings Lord St. Simon face to face with Mr. and Mrs. Moulton.

Hatty tells how her first husband, thought dead, appeared in church and she followed him.

Holmes explains: a man in the pew, a hotel bill, and the trail to Moulton.

A frantic banker, Alexander Holder, hurries into Baker Street and begs for Holmes’s help.

A great personage borrows £50,000 on the Beryl Coronet; Holder locks it in his bureau.

Holder describes his household and son Arthur, who begs £200 the night the coronet comes.

In the night Holder finds Arthur holding the broken coronet; three gems are gone.

Holmes doubts Arthur’s guilt and goes with Holder to the house at Streatham.

Mary defends Arthur; Holmes asks of Lucy’s wooden-legged suitor and tries the coronet.

Holmes searches the snow, returns as a loafer with an old boot, then goes out again.

Mary has fled; Holmes returns the gems for £4,000 and says she left with Sir George.

Holmes reconstructs the night: Mary hands the coronet to Sir George, and Arthur follows.

Holmes tells how he traced the boots to Sir George and bought the stones back.

Holmes scolds Watson’s style; governess Violet Hunter arrives with a puzzling job offer.

Rucastle offers Violet £100 a year, but wants her to wear his dresses and cut her hair.

Rucastle writes again offering £120; Holmes distrusts it but promises help if called.

A telegram summons Holmes and Watson to Winchester; Holmes distrusts quiet country houses.

At the house, Violet meets silent Mrs. Rucastle, a spoiled child and the drunken Toller.

Violet must wear a blue dress and sit by the window while Rucastle tells funny stories.

A mastiff roams at night; Violet finds a copy of her own cut hair in a locked drawer.

Violet slips into the locked wing, finds a barred door, and flees into Rucastle’s arms.

Holmes deduces Violet is a stand-in for a prisoner; at the house they find the room empty.

Rucastle is mauled by his starved dog; Mrs. Toller tells Alice’s story and Fowler’s part.