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.

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.

Sherlock Holmes tracks down a criminal who uses a young girl to lure victims into empty houses, where they are then murdered.

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.

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.

Dr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes and assists him in solving a case that has otherwise confounded Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.

When Holmes and Watson find a baby on their doorstep, it turns out to be the daughter of a missing French scientist. Soon, the baby is kidnapped, leaving Holmes to embark on a mission to find the child and avoid an international scandal.

Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles beside each woman he has murdered.

When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat stating that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.