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Sherlock Holmes

Classic Mystery Male Lead

About

London's sharpest detective and his loyal friend Dr. Watson chase clever puzzles and missing racehorses across the foggy streets of Victorian London, with every case unraveled by the fireplace at 221B Baker Street.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor with no patients who invented the world's most famous detective to pass the time. He based Sherlock on his medical school teacher, who could read a stranger's life in 30 seconds.
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Episodes

1. The Strangest Job in London
A red-headed pawnbroker tells Sherlock Holmes about the strangest job in London: copying out the encyclopedia by hand for four pounds a week, in a club for red-headed men. Then, eight weeks later, the whole club vanishes overnight.
~3,849 words
2. The Cellar Job
Sherlock Holmes follows the trail of the vanished red-headed club to a quiet pawnshop on Saxe-Coburg Square. A small clue on the new assistant's trousers tells him something the police have missed, and a cold night's wait may catch a famous criminal at last.
~3,662 words
3. What the Goose Carried
On the second morning after Christmas, Sherlock Holmes shows Watson a battered hat and a missing goose. Then a startled visitor bursts in clutching something brilliant in his palm, and a small Christmas mystery becomes much larger.
~3,823 words
4. The Goose Club Trail
Sherlock Holmes traces a single Christmas goose backward through the streets of London, from one stall to the next, hunting for the man behind the whole strange affair.
~3,384 words
5. A Trip to Dartmoor
England's most famous racehorse vanishes from a Dartmoor stable, and the trainer is found knocked senseless on the moor. Sherlock Holmes takes the train south and notices something curious about a dog that did nothing in the night.
~3,590 words
6. The Curious Incident
Sherlock Holmes follows a single set of hoofprints across the Dartmoor moor and makes a quiet bargain with a rival stable. Will race day at the Wessex Cup reveal who really attacked the trainer?
~3,518 words
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