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  3-4
Death By Scrabble by Charlie Fish
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Date Added: September 2006
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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  5-9
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan.
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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Letter from the Understudy by Kathryn Simmonds
An apology from an actor involved in some drama outside working hours.
- Date Added: March 2007
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle
A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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  10-14
Fall North by Tim McLean
Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo.
- Date Added: March 2007
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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  15-19
The Man with the Watches by Arthur Conan Doyle
An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on a moving train.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes reveals the existence of a single organiser behind half the crime in London - an evil genius named Professor Moriarty - and soon finds himself in mortal danger.
- Date Added: September 2002
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Stock Broker's Clerk by Arthur Conan Doyle
A young clerk lands what appears to be an ideal job - but soon begins to suspect he may be part of an elaborate trick.
- Date Added: September 2002
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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Gentlemen and Players by E. W. Hornung
The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero.
- Date Added: January 2001
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Adventure Of Black Peter by Arthur Conan Doyle
An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.
- Date Added: July 2003
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Musgrave Ritual by Arthur Conan Doyle
A university friend asks Holmes to help explain the disappearance of a butler shortly after he had been discovered taking an interest in a strange family ritual.
- Date Added: September 2002
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
A potentially explosive letter has been stolen. The police know who has - but where he has it remains a mystery.
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lestrade consults Holmes when a number of busts of Napoleon are smashed at various locations around London.
- Date Added: July 2003
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Brazilian Cat by Arthur Conan Doyle
A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.
- Date Added: December 1999
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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  20-29
The Man With The Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes goes in search of a missing man, last seen, by his wife, looking agitated in the second floor window above a seedy opium den.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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A Scandal In Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder by Arthur Conan Doyle
Just as he is about to be arrested for the murder of a client, a young lawyer pays a visit on Holmes and begs him to help prove his innocence.
- Date Added: July 2003
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Adventure Of The Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle
A young lady asks Holmes' advice as to whether she should accept an excellent appointment as a governess even though it comes with an unusual condition attached.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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