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The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her sex. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her.

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes". Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque".

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft.

The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow. Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed.

The Adventure of the Three Students, 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. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour.

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.

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.

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, 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 wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by burglars. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the infamous Randall gang who have committed several other burglaries in the neighborhood.

The Adventure of the Second Stain, 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 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 favourite Holmes stories. Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work.

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 cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street to discuss the violent death of Willoughby Smith, secretary to aged invalid Professor Coram. Coram had dismissed his previous two secretaries. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent, with a sealing-wax knife of the professor's as the weapon.

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".

Auf Gliese 1214 b existiert seit Jahren eine Forschungsstation, deren zwölf Mitglieder schon länger nichts von sich hören ließen. Bereits kurz nach ihrer Ankunft erfahren Kapitän Decker, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson vom Tod eines Forschers, der laut dem Bericht eines Roboters nicht natürlich gewesen sein kann.

Auf Kepler-186f befindet sich eine unterirdische Militärstation, die eine Mittelalter-Gesellschaft von Ausgestoßenen an der Oberfläche überwacht. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson wollen ein wenig Licht in deren dunkle Existenz bringen, doch just bei ihrer Ankunft liegt ein Ritter tot in seinem Bett. Holmes fühlt sich natürlich sofort verpflichtet, den offensichtlichen Mordfall aufzuklären.

Die Aufnahme von Rohstoffen sowie eine nötige Inspektion zwingen die Ultimo-1 zur Landung auf einem Exoplanet. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson nutzen dessen angenehme Natur, um sich die Beine am Strand zu vertreten. Ein Unterseeboot, das aus dem Meer auftaucht, entpuppt sich zu ihrem Erstaunen als die Nautilus, welche einst auf der Erde stationiert war, und sie werden Zeuge eines Begräbnisses.

Kapitän Decker will seinen Ausbildner Admiral Willcox im Pensionärsheim auf einem Exoplanet besuchen. Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson möchten sich diese exquisite Altenresidenz auch ansehen und geraten unversehens in eine Serie mysteriöser Mordfälle...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson haben sich an Bord der Ultimo-1 schon so gut eingewöhnt, dass sie dem Ersten Offizier bereits lästig fallen. Deshalb versucht er, den Kapitän zu überreden, die zwei Gentlemen in die Vergangenheit abzuschieben. Leider macht ihm eine junge Raumfahrerin, die dringend Hilfe benötigt, einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Frank Askin, Astronaut einer privaten Firma, verdächtigt seinen Boss, ein Zeitreisender zu sein. Dieser ist ein Konkurrent der Galaktischen Union, weswegen Sherlock Holmes den Auftrag erhält, ihm auf den Zahn zu fühlen. Dabei ist ihm Dr. Watson äußerst nützlich, gerät aber in große Gefahr.

Die Galaktische Union hat auf einem Exoplaneten ein Klon-Experiment gestartet, das zu scheitern droht. Daher erhält der Erste Offizier Tornot den Auftrag, Nachschau zu halten. Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson unterstützen ihn als zivile Begleiter und geraten in eine unheimliche Gesellschaft.

In der Außenstation auf der unwirtlichen Oberfläche eines Eisplaneten ist ein Mitglied eines Forschungsteams erfroren. Doch Sherlock Holmes, der mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot dorthin abkommandiert wurde, kommen die ganzen Umstände sehr verdächtig vor. Um den Täter ausforschen zu können, lässt er sich einen amüsanten Trick einfallen.

Einzelne Wrackteile von geringer Größe künden von der Zerstörung eines Raumfrachters. Sherlock Holmes ist bei der Entzifferung der beschädigten Nachricht des Logbuches behilflich. Irgendetwas scheint bei der Lieferung gefährlicher Waffen an eine weit entfernte Militärstation schiefgelaufen zu sein. Zusammen mit Tornot und Dr. Watson ermittelt er den Grund, wobei sie alle in Gefahr geraten.