The writer of several hundred stories and novels, English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his writing career in 1879. While he introduced the world to his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in the 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet", it would not be until the 1891 publication of "A Scandal in Bohemia" that his illustrative career in writing would truly begin. With this Sherlock Holmes short story, the imagination of the reading public was instantly...

The only clue left at the site of a pair of grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Inspector Lestrade seeks Sherlock Holmes' assistance in the case.

Dr. Watson accidentally leaves a club with another man's coat, a fortuitous occurrence considering the coat proves to be a key piece of evidence after the other man is murdered later that same evening.

Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.

After Dr. Watson believes he has seen a ghost, Sherlock Holmes is set upon a case that leads to a crime committed in an art museum.

A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo exhibition requests Sherlock Holmes' immediate assistance after she discovers a dead man in her bedroom.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the details behind a strange story conveyed to him by a shopkeeper who claims to have been a member of the League of Red-Headed Men, until it quickly and unexpectedly dissolved.

After a boy flees his compartment on a train, he suddenly disappears into thin air. Although his governess believes that he has simply run away, Holmes has other suspicions. Holmes' inquiry into the matter leads him to a nearby circus.

After a notorious criminal is killed by a milk-wagon, Lestrade finds a coded message in the man's clothing, and asks Holmes to decipher it. The investigation leads Holmes to assume the dead man's identity and travel all the way to Paris.

Watson is led to believe that Holmes is a criminal mastermind. But all is not as it seems.