Smokingpipe Stories

Holmes and Watson hear the story of Munro's deception by his wife Effie. She had been previously married in America, but her husband and child had died of yellow fever...

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a young bride to be who fears that she'll be murdered. Helen Stoner, the stepdaughter of Sir Grimesby Roylott, has reason to bel...

Holmes had escaped three separate murder attempts after a visit from Professor Moriarty, who warned Holmes to withdraw from his pursuit of justice against him to avoid a...

Three years after Sherlock Holmes' death, Ronald Adair was shot in a locked room. Watson had not arrived at a plausible solution of the case. When he was passing the mur...

Violet Hunter seeks the help of Holmes when she discovers some strange things about a new position as governess for Mr. Jephro Rucastle, a strange man. This man insists...

Charles Mc Carthy, one of the tenant of John Turner's land was murdered. His son, James was found at the scene with a gun after an argument with his father, and thus he...

An engineer, by the name of Victor Hatherley, has had his thumb chopped off in a murderous attack. Hatherley had been employed by a shadowy German figure to repair a hyd...

Mysterious letters each with KKK signs and five orange pips, followed by mysterious death of the Openshaw family who received them one by one. This has caused Sherlock H...

A greek interpreter was kidnapped and forced to translate some documents by two mysterious Greek men. First published in the Strand Magazine, Sept. 1893, with 8 illustra...

Miss Mary Sutherland's fiancee went missing and she asked Holmes for help. Little did she know, her strict stepfather had something to do with this...

Reginald Musgrave visits Holmes after the disappearance of two of his domestic staff, Rachel Howells, a maid, and Richard Brunton, the longtime butler. Brunton vanished...

There has recently been a burglary at the nearby Acton estate in which the thieves stole a motley assortment of things, even a ball of twine, but nothing terribly valuab...

Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the...

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet - one of the most valuable public possessions in exis...

An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from a Foreign Office clerk; Sherlock Holmes sets out to find it. An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty fro...

Blessington offered Percy to finance his practice, on the condition that Percy would give three quarters of his earnings to him. It turned out to be profitable. One day...

Mrs. Barclay was suspected of murdering her own husband. Holmes and Watson go to investigate this to find more to the case.

Holmes's friend, Mr. Trevor was dying as a result of a stroke suffered after he received a letter. Seven weeks earlier, Hudson an old man, had come looking for work. He...

Flora Millar; a dancer - caused a disturbance at a wedding reception. A mysterious man at the church picked the wedding bouquet dropped by the bride and handed it back t...

Pycroft is a stockbroker's clerk who had then been taken on by the firm of Mawson and Williams in the City of London. Tthe firm took him on without a face-to-face interv...