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.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories follow a sharp-eyed detective and Dr. Watson through puzzling crimes, clever clues, and unexpected turns. Here you can read mysteries such as “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” with every story free to read or listen to on Pagehush.
A colonel is found dead in a locked room, his wife unconscious beside him, and only one strange word to go on: David.
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moor, the footprints of a gigantic hound beside him.
Five dried orange pips arrive in an envelope, and the men who receive them die soon after.
A king needs a compromising photograph back, and Sherlock Holmes meets the one person who ever beat him: Irene Adler, "the woman".
A lost Christmas goose turns out to have a famous stolen jewel in its crop.
Miss Mary Morstan comes to Baker Street with a strange tale: every year since her father vanished, someone has sent her a perfect pearl.
Miss Mary Sutherland's fiancé vanished on the morning of their wedding, and she wants Holmes to find him.
Milverton is the king of blackmailers, and the man Holmes hates most in London.
Sir Eustace Brackenstall lies dead, struck down by a gang of burglars, his wife says.
A banker takes a priceless coronet home for safekeeping, then catches his own son with it in the night, three jewels missing.
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.
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.
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.
Three years after Sherlock Holmes went over the Reichenbach Falls, a young nobleman is shot dead in a locked room.
A young engineer arrives at Watson's door at dawn with his thumb cut off.
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.
A secret letter that could start a war in Europe has vanished from the Prime Minister's own dispatch box.
Someone is breaking into houses across London to smash plaster busts of Napoleon, and leaves everything else alone.
A rich landowner is found dead by a lonely pool, and his son was seen arguing with him just before.
Sherlock Holmes arrives at Watson's door, his knuckles bleeding, and tells him about Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime.
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…
Holmes introduces Watson to his brother Mycroft, who is even cleverer, and too lazy to be a detective.
Mrs St Clair sees her husband at an upstairs window in an opium den in East London, and then he is gone.
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…
A secret naval treaty is stolen from Percy Phelps's desk at the Foreign Office in the few minutes he left it alone.
A pawnbroker is paid to copy out the encyclopaedia, simply because he has red hair.
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 favourite for the Wessex Cup vanishes from his stable and his trainer is found dead on the moor.
A Norfolk squire brings Holmes a page of childish stick figures that have frightened his American wife half to death.
A duke's young son vanishes from his boarding school in the night, and so does the German master, on a bicycle.
A terrified young woman tells Holmes how her sister died, crying out about a speckled band.
Dr. Watson, back from the war, needs cheap rooms and is introduced to a strange young man called Sherlock Holmes.
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