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Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.
In the heat of battle, with tens of thousands of Germans descending on the British trenches and all hope lost, a man prays to Saint George.
They live in the world's safest place, but are seized with an irrational fear. The locals begin to take drastic precautions to protect themselves.
When the cold has settled deep in your bones ...
An attempt is made to visit the millionaire.
Over the course of the summer, John and the Pilgrims became friends.
Several years after the events described in 'The Final Problem', Dr Watson takes an interest in the murder of Ronald Adair who was shot in a locked second floor room.
The headmaster of an exclusive boarding school persuades Holmes to track down the abducted son of a wealthy duke.
Up-and-coming detective Stanley Hopkins consults Holmes about the apparently motiveless murder of the secretary of an old professor.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
Holmes investigates the disappearance of the top player in the Cambridge University Rugby team on the eve of a match against Oxford.
Holmes is called in to investigate the murder of Sir Eustace Brackenstall, apparently during a burglary.
A man returns to the family holiday home without his aging wife.
A short history of and a personal tale concerning the phenomenon of being buried alive.
A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
An artist and his model are disturbed by the appearence of a pale-faced man in the graveyard below their studio window.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
