The Horror of the Heights
A blood-stained notebook is found in a field. It belonged to an aviator who believed something lived in the upper air, miles above the clouds, and flew up alone to…
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer best known for creating Sherlock Holmes, whose stories combine careful observation, puzzles and unexpected turns. Here you can read his stories, including “The Final Problem” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” or listen to them read aloud; every story is free to read or listen to.
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Milverton is the king of blackmailers, and the man Holmes hates most in London.
A Case of Identity
Miss Mary Sutherland's fiancé vanished on the morning of their wedding, and she wants Holmes to find him.
The Crooked Man
A colonel is found dead in a locked room, his wife unconscious beside him, and only one strange word to go on: David.
The Greek Interpreter
Holmes introduces Watson to his brother Mycroft, who is even cleverer, and too lazy to be a detective.
The Final Problem
Sherlock Holmes arrives at Watson's door, his knuckles bleeding, and tells him about Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime.
The Five Orange Pips
Five dried orange pips arrive in an envelope, and the men who receive them die soon after.
The Musgrave Ritual
Holmes tells Watson about one of his first cases: a butler who vanished after being caught reading an old family document, the strange ritual every Musgrave heir must…
The Yellow Face
Grant Munro's wife has asked him for a hundred pounds without saying why, and she keeps slipping out to a cottage nearby where a strange yellow face looks out of the…
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
A lost Christmas goose turns out to have a famous stolen jewel in its crop.
The Gloria Scott
Holmes tells Watson about his very first case, from his student days: a coded note that frightened an old man to death, and the secret of a convict ship that went…
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
A young engineer arrives at Watson's door at dawn with his thumb cut off.
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Someone is breaking into houses across London to smash plaster busts of Napoleon, and leaves everything else alone.
A Scandal in Bohemia
A king needs a compromising photograph back, and Sherlock Holmes meets the one person who ever beat him: Irene Adler, "the woman".
The Adventure of the Empty House
Three years after Sherlock Holmes went over the Reichenbach Falls, a young nobleman is shot dead in a locked room.
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Sir Eustace Brackenstall lies dead, struck down by a gang of burglars, his wife says.
The Red-Headed League
A pawnbroker is paid to copy out the encyclopaedia, simply because he has red hair.
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
A frightened young solicitor bursts into Baker Street: the police are coming to arrest him for murdering a client who had just left him everything in his will.
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Mrs St Clair sees her husband at an upstairs window in an opium den in East London, and then he is gone.
Silver Blaze
The favourite for the Wessex Cup vanishes from his stable and his trainer is found dead on the moor.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
A Norfolk squire brings Holmes a page of childish stick figures that have frightened his American wife half to death.
The Adventure of the Second Stain
A secret letter that could start a war in Europe has vanished from the Prime Minister's own dispatch box.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
A rich landowner is found dead by a lonely pool, and his son was seen arguing with him just before.
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
A banker takes a priceless coronet home for safekeeping, then catches his own son with it in the night, three jewels missing.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
A terrified young woman tells Holmes how her sister died, crying out about a speckled band.
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Violet Hunter is offered a governess's job at a strangely high salary, as long as she cuts her hair short, wears a blue dress and sits by the window when she's told to.
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
Holmes is resting in Cornwall when a family is found at their card table, the sister dead and her brothers raving mad, faces twisted with terror.
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
The plans of Britain's most secret submarine have been stolen, and a young clerk is found dead beside the Underground line with seven of the ten pages in his pocket.
The Adventure of the Priory School
A duke's young son vanishes from his boarding school in the night, and so does the German master, on a bicycle.
The Naval Treaty
A secret naval treaty is stolen from Percy Phelps's desk at the Foreign Office in the few minutes he left it alone.
The Sign of the Four
Miss Mary Morstan comes to Baker Street with a strange tale: every year since her father vanished, someone has sent her a perfect pearl.
A Study in Scarlet
Dr. Watson, back from the war, needs cheap rooms and is introduced to a strange young man called Sherlock Holmes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moor, the footprints of a gigantic hound beside him.
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