Sherlock Holmes

The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories: Holmes and Watson are summoned to a London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. On the wall, a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime, but when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'

A selection of cases from Dr Watson's notebooks which culminate in the strange disappearance of Sherlock Holmes in Switzerland.

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.

Dr Watson believed that Sherlock Holmes had died at Reichenbach Falls. To Watson's surprise and delight he reappears three years later and the pair are soon at work in search of London's second most dangerous man.

A cipher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin the case which has Sherlock Holmes battling against his arch enemy, Dr Moriarty.

From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction.

It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives at Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who is stalking him. Richard & Judy Bookclub

After Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place.

Some of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories in which Dr. Watson assists in the solution of crime.