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A "Blue Carbuncle" is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.

A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

"The Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Doctor Percy Trevelyan brings Holmes an unusual problem. Having been a brilliant student but a poor man, Dr. Trevelyan has found himself a participant in an unusual business arrangement.

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.

"The Naval Treaty", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" 19th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Dr. Watson receives a letter, which he then refers to Holmes, from an old schoolmate, now a Foreign Office employee from Woking who has had an important naval treaty stolen from his office.

"The Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

"The Reigate Squires" was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson ermitteln in einem irritierenden Fall: Ausgerechnet auf der Baustelle des neuen Scotland Yard-Gebäudes wurden Leichenteile gefunden. Was für die Polizei recht peinlich ist, zieht bald noch weitere Kreise.

Um die Kunst des gekonnten Betrugs zu studieren, besuchen Holmes, Miss Isabelle Adler sowie Watsons Frau Mary eine Séance. Diese verläuft allerdings etwas anders als erwartet: Nachdem das Medium eine rätselhafte Offenbarung äußert, verstirbt plötzlich und unerwartet einer der Teilnehmer. Ähnliche Fälle, weiß Holmes, erschütterten vor kurzem Frankreich. Ist es Mord?

Holmes ist wieder einmal in chemische Studien vertieft - mit einer Einladung zum Pferderennen in Ascott möchte Watson ihn eigentlich ablenken. Als der Champion, Hengst Eclipse, jedoch kurz darauf tot aufgefunden wird, haben die beiden ihren nächsten Fall. Dessen Spuren führen zunächst in ein Londoner Elendsviertel und schließlich sogar bis an die Berliner Charité.

Erneut erzählt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle den Hörern eine Geschichte aus seiner Geburtsstadt Edinburgh. In der Nähe der South Bridge Vaults wird die übel zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Prostituierten gefunden. Der ehrgeizige Journalist Justin McNair wittert die Story seines Lebens: Ist es etwa möglich, dass der berüchtigte Londoner Prostituiertenmörder Jack the Ripper nach vielen Jahren in Edinburgh aufgetaucht ist? Engagiert geht er seinem Verdacht nach, nicht ahnend, dass er damit nicht nur sich selbst in größte Gefahr bringt.

Ein mutmaßlicher Giftmord an einem Chirurgen gibt Scotland Yard Rätsel auf, so dass bald Holmes und Watson hinzugezogen werden. Es scheint ein Motiv zu fehlen, zumindest auf den ersten Blick. Tiefergehende Nachforschungen führen Holmes an die Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, wo er bald einem veritablen Medizinskandal auf der Spur ist - und Watson mit den dunklen Seiten seines Berufsstands konfrontiert wird.

Als Holmes und Watson im Frühjahr 1889 die Indian and Colonial Exhibition in Süd-Kensington besuchen, werden sie zufällig Zeuge eines merkwürdigen Diebstahls: Auf das Abhandenkommen einer scheinbar wertlosen afrikanischen Holzstatue vermag sich niemand so recht einen Reim zu machen. Weitere Nachforschungen führen Holmes, Watson und dessen Frau Mary, die auch diesmal wieder einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Lösung des Falls leistet, in die jüngere europäische Kolonialgeschichte.

Sherlock Holmes und die Drachenlady ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte aus dem gleichnamigen Sammelband von Klaus-Peter Walter. Holmes' Hand wies den Strahlen unserer Lampen den Weg durch die Dunkelheit eines mit Unrat angefüllten Kellergewölbes zu einem massiven hölzernen Sessel, auf dem, notdürftig mit einer schmutzigen Decke zugedeckt, reglos eine menschliche Gestalt saß. Zwei nackte Beine ragten, an die Sesselfüße gefesselt, verdreht unter der Decke hervor.

Ein Ausländer, ein gewisser Rudolph Unterweger, wird erstochen in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden. Doch damit nicht genug - die Leiche ist verstümmelt, im Mund des Toten findet sich ein seltsames Metallobjekt: Es zeigt einen doppelköpfigen Adler, nebst eingeritzter römischer "II". Ein Freimaurersymbol, wie Holmes zu bedenken gibt. Steckt ein Zwist unter Logenbrüdern dahinter? Oder womöglich etwas ganz Anderes?

Eine Ärztin sucht Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street auf, weil eine Patientin von ihr verschwunden ist – eine Prostituierte aus Whitechapel. Könnte sie einer dubiosen medizinischen Behandlung zum Opfer gefallen sein? Holmes, Watson und Miss Adler ermitteln.