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A job advert with a bizarre set of requirements leads a young entomologist off on a mysterious adventure. In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground. The Prime Minister asks Holmes to investigate the theft of a letter of exceptional diplomatic importance.

A reputable doctor comes to Holmes for advice when a mysterious benefactor, resident at his clinic, becomes paranoid about the security of t. A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state. After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her w.

Holmes investigates the disappearance of the top player in the Cambridge University Rugby team on the eve of a match against Oxford. While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else i. When the favorite for the Wessex Cup disappears and his trainer murdered, Holmes travels to Dartmoor to investigate.

An interpreter seeks Holmes' advice after being abducted and forced to translate a conversation with a bound and gagged man. A story that al. Holmes goes in search of a missing man, last seen, by his wife, looking agitated in the second floor window above a seedy opium den. Report copyright infringement or trademark infringement. Read our rules.

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