Return of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventure of the Empty House
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 1 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 “Sherlock Holmes” short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.”
Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". “The Hound of the Baskervilles” had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.
Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
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The Adventure of the Empty House
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 1 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a three-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the "second most dangerous man in London" who has a good reason to hope for Holmes' demise. From the 1905 collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by John French
Part 2 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" is notable for being the first Sherlock Holmes story to reference fingerprint analysis. It was published in 1903.
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 2 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A young lawyer asks Holmes to clear him of the charge of murdering a rich man soon after preparing the man's will. Inspector Lestrade is convinced of the young attorney's guilt and believes he has finally bested Holmes, but by the use of forensic science and a bogus house fire, Holmes is able to exonerate the young lawyer while proving he was set-up.
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 2 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short “Sherlock Holmes” stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.” The story was first published in “The Strand Magazine” in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw, to his surprise, that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary and even heir to a considerable bequest, and McFarlane cannot imagine why Oldacre would do so. That business took McFarlane to Oldacre's house in Lower Norwood, where some documents had to be examined for legal purposes. They had been kept in the safe, where the murder allegedly took place. McFarlane left quite late and stayed at a local inn. He claims to have read about the murder in the newspaper the next morning on the train. The paper said quite clearly that the police were looking for him.
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 3 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” in 1905. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. The original title was "The Dancing Men," when it was published as a short story in “The Strand Magazine” in December 1903.
The story begins when Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk visits Sherlock Holmes and gives him a piece of paper with the following mysterious sequence of stick figures.-Cubitt explains to Holmes and Dr. Watson that he has recently married an American woman named Elsie Patrick. Before the wedding, she had asked her husband-to-be never to ask about her past, as she had had some "very disagreeable associations" in her life, although she said that there was nothing that she was personally ashamed of. Their marriage had been a happy one until the messages began to arrive, first mailed from the United States and then appearing in the garden.
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 3 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A Norfolk country squire from a reputable family hires Holmes to help him learn who has been sending him weird encoded messages, in the form of dancing stick figures that are disturbing his wife. Upon collecting enough of the messages Holmes cracks the code. He returns to Norfolk to present his findings only to find that his client has been met with tragedy. Using forensic science and his inimitable powers of deduction, Holmes is able to assist the Norfolk authorities and identify the criminal.
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Jordan Dey
Part 3 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", a 1903 Sherlock Holmes story written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help.
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The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 4 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 “Sherlock Holmes” short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.”
Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully. They had come from South Africa, where they had known Violet's uncle Ralph Smith, who had now also died in poverty and apparently wanted to see that his relatives were provided for. This struck Violet as odd, since she and her family had not heard a word from Smith since his departure for South Africa 25 years ago. Carruthers and Woodley explained that before dying, Ralph had heard of his brother's death and felt responsible for his survivors' welfare.
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The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 4 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A young woman explains to Holmes that an unknown man has been following her by bicycle on her weekly trips from the house where she works to the railroad station. Having met two friends of her recently-deceased uncle, one of the men, Carruthers, hires her as a governess and later proposes to her. The young woman, being already engaged, declines. The other man, Woodley, disturbs her with rude behavior and romantic advances. Holmes connects the clues and arrives in time to solve the mystery of the unknown cyclist and to save Smith after she is kidnapped by Woodley.
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The Adventure of the Priory School
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 5 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 “Sherlock Holmes” short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.” Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Priory School" tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.
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The Adventure of the Priory School
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Edward Hardwicke
Part 5 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Motivated by greed and jealousy, the criminal in this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventure of the Priory School aims to kidnap a young lord-but causes a far greater tragedy.
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The Adventure of the Priory School
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Leslie Pearsal
Part 5 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Priory School", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Collier's in the United States on 30 January 1904, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in February 1904.
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The Adventure of the Priory School
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 5 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The distraught head of an elite boarding school hires Holmes and Watson to investigate the sensitive disappearance of the young heir of a local nobleman. Searching in the fields surrounding the school, they make a grisly discovery-the dead body of one of the boy's teachers. Sensing the growing danger to the young boy and suspecting the interference of the Duke's secretary, Holmes and Watson question the Duke himself, who reveals a shocking detail to them.
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The Adventure of Black Peter
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 6 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of Black Peter is a “Sherlock Holmes” story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in “The Strand Magazine” and “Collier's.”
Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.
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The Adventure of Black Peter
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 6 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A ship captain is found dead, stabbed through with a harpoon. Police inspector Stanley Hopkins, who is being mentored by Sherlock Holmes, brings the case to Holmes and Dr. Watson. An abusive man, the captain had many enemies, widening the suspect list. The investigation finds Holmes and company on a stakeout, on a case that involves a chance meetings on the high seas, and stolen securities.
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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 7 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 “Sherlock Holmes” short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” and was published in 1904.
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers". He demands £7,000 (over £800,000 in 2015) for the letters, which if given to third parties would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement. Holmes offers £2,000, all Lady Eva can pay, but Milverton insists on £7,000. It is worth £7,000 to him, he explains, to make an example of Lady Eva; it is in his long-term interest to ensure that his future blackmail victims would be more "open to reason" and pay him what he wants, knowing he will destroy them if they do not. Holmes resolves to recover the letters by whatever means necessary, as Milverton has placed himself outside the bounds of morality.
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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 7 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes is hired by a lady who is being harassed by Milverton, a notorious blackmailer who has ruined many people and caused many grief. Though he is determined to stop him, Milverton is very crafty and Holmes is unable to find the evidence necessary to put him away. Finally, Holmes and Watson decide on a daring plan to retrieve their client's incriminating letters. While there, they witness a crime that forces Holmes and Watson to make a momentous choice.
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 8 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Someone is destroying small busts of Napoleon Bonaparte. At first merely a nuisance, vandalism quickly turns to murder after one of the statue owners finds a dead man on his doorstep beside a smashed statue. Reasoning his way back to the source of the statues, Holmes determines that there is more to this case than just antipathy towards the great French leader. Can Holmes and Watson solve the mystery before the bust buster strikes again?
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Mark Young
Part 8 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, one of the 56 “Sherlock Holmes” short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as “The Return of Sherlock Holmes.”
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson's shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor's house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.
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The Adventure of the Three Students
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Robert Hardy
Part 9 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are once more called upon for help, this time by Professor Soames, a university lecturer in Greek. A paper for an important exam due to take place the next day goes missing from Soames’ study and suspicion falls on three students living nearby. Holmes and Watson must unmask the cheat in time for the exam.
This lively short is brought vividly to life by Robert Hardy, known to many for playing Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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The Adventure of the Three Students
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 9 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes and Watson, on a research trip in a university town, are approached by a professor. The professor believes someone has entered his office and seen, and perhaps copied, the examination papers he is to administer the next day. Holmes begins by narrowing down the suspects to three students who live nearby. After studying several innocuous pieces of evidence, he believes he has identified the culprit. All that remains is to elicit the confession.
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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Frances Williams
Part 10 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection.
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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 10 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A young man working as the assistant to a professor has been murdered. While it appears that anyone could have entered the house and committed the murder, a clue in the form of a pair of gold glasses is found near the body. Working on the assumption that the killer wore the glasses as well as several other clues, Holmes comes to the chilling realization that the murderer is still in the house.
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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 11 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
A young rugby player asks Holmes and Watson for help finding his missing teammate before a big game. The client explains that his missing teammate disappeared with an older man after sending a mysterious telegram. Holmes and Watson, using forensic techniques on the telegram, track the missing player to a nearby town. After being stonewalled by the doctor of the missing player, Holmes finally him with the help of a tracking dog. Then Holmes and Watson learn the shocking secret of the man's disappearance.
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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Sam Kusi
Part 11 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby union team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title) and they will not win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found. Holmes has to admit that sport is outside his field, but he shows the same care he has shown to his other cases.
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The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 12 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are asked to assist on a home invasion and murder case. A woman reports that a gang of men broke into her home, killed her husband, tied her up, and stole the family silver. Though it seems like a clear-cut case of robbery gone wrong, Holmes's gut tells him otherwise. But what motive lies behind this erstwhile victim's story?
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The Adventure of the Second Stain
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by George Bernard Millman
Part 13 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" is one of 13 stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection and the only unrecorded case mentioned passively by Watson to be written. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Second Stain" eighth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
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The Adventure of the Second Stain
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by Stephen Thorne
Part 13 of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Watson and Holmes are engaged by the Prime Minister and the European Secretary to help recover a sensitive stolen political document. Tracking the document to a recently murdered spy, Holmes realizes that the European Secretary's wife actually has the letter. The questions immediately pile up in this tale of international intrigue, blackmail, and double-dealing.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by David Timson
Part of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
No case is too slight for the mental powers of the great detective: in this second selection from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, a young girl is stalked by a solitary cyclist; whilst the 'dancing men' hieroglyphics found in Norfolk lead to a sinister connection with America. Holmes enters the murky world of high society blackmail in Charles Augustus Milverton; and finds an abducted student from the Priory school. As always, his friend Dr Watson is with him to assist and chronicle these cases.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by David Timson
Part of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Using his famed powers of deduction, Holmes solves baffling cases including 'The Empty House', 'The Six Napoleons', 'The Golden Prince-Nez', and more.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
read by David Timson
Part of the Return of Sherlock Holmes series
Includes The Adventure of Black Peter; The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez; The Advennture of the Missing Three-Quarter; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange and The Adventure of the Second Stain.
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