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In a lost manuscript by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes, in the grip of cocaine, is tricked into travelling to Vienna to be treated by a young doctor named Sigmund Freud.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve early Holmes cases narrated by Dr Watson, among them a pawnbroker recruited by the League of Red-Headed Men, the speckled band and the engineer's thumb, which set the pattern for the detective stories that followed.
The Wench Is Dead
Laid up in an Oxford hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Chief Inspector Morse reads an old account of the 1859 murder of Joanna Franks on the Oxford Canal, for which two boatmen were hanged, and sets out to solve it again from his bed.
The Moonstone
A sacred Indian diamond left to a young English heiress vanishes from her Yorkshire house on the night of her eighteenth birthday, and the people who were there tell the story of the hunt for it in turn.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
The Big Bow Mystery
In a lodging house in Bow, in London's East End, a young idealist is found with his throat cut in a room bolted from the inside, and the retired detective next door is baffled.
The Daughter of Time
Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard grows interested in a portrait of Richard III and sets out to learn whether the king really murdered the princes in the Tower.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
In 1884 Amelia Peabody, a wealthy, strong-minded Englishwoman of thirty-two, sets off for Egypt with a young woman she rescued in Rome, and runs into Radcliffe Emerson, a rude archaeologist, and a mummy that walks at night.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
In the summer of 1950 at Buckshaw, the crumbling English country house she shares with her widowed father and two older sisters, eleven-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce finds a dead bird on the doorstep with a stamp pinned to its beak.
The Janissary Tree
In Istanbul in 1836, Yashim, a eunuch who investigates for the sultan, has ten days to solve the murders of four officers of the New Guard before a great military review.
The Judas Window
James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.
March Violets
In Berlin in 1936, with the Olympics about to open, Bernie Gunther, a police detective turned private investigator, is hired by a steel magnate to recover a diamond necklace stolen from the safe of his daughter and son-in-law, who died in a fire.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.