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A young doctor with a brilliant degree and no money is offered an arrangement too generous to refuse: a fine house in Brook Street, a practice fully furnished, and a silent partner who asks only for a share of the takings and a room of his own.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

43 min·No. 216

The most famous racehorse in England has vanished, and his trainer lies dead on the moor. Days before the Wessex Cup, Silver Blaze, the favourite, disappears from his stable at King's Pyland on Dartmoor.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

57 min·No. 194

For three hundred years an old English family has recited the same strange riddle, word for word, father to son — a catechism of questions and answers that no Musgrave has ever thought to question.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

50 min·No. 189

A governess named Violet Hunter comes to Baker Street with an offer she cannot understand. A wealthy, jovial gentleman wishes to hire her at an extravagant salary — but on the strangest of conditions.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1 hr 5 min·No. 187

Sent to fetch a friend from a riverside opium den, Dr. Watson stumbles instead upon Sherlock Holmes himself — in disguise, and deep in one of the strangest cases of his career. A respectable gentleman named Neville St.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1 hr 1 min·No. 180

"It was the band!

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1 hr 2 min·No. 172

A pawnbroker with flaming red hair answers a newspaper advertisement and finds himself hired by the mysterious Red-Headed League, paid four pounds a week to copy out the encyclopaedia under one absurd condition — that he never leave the office during working hours — until one morning a card on the door announces the League dissolved and no such society ever known to exist; when Jabez Wilson brings his ridiculous tale to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes sees what his bewildered client cannot: behind the farce lies one of the most cunning crimes he has ever been asked to prevent, and the answer has been hiding beneath everyone's feet the whole time; ranked by Conan Doyle himself among his finest Holmes stories and a perfect showcase of the detective's method, where the most laughable clue conceals the most serious danger, first printed in The Strand Magazine in August 1891 and collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it, from the Midnight Archive — Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1 hr·No. 161

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman — when a masked stranger calls at 221B Baker Street after dark claiming to be the agent of a European royal house, Holmes sees through the disguise before the man finishes his first sentence: the King of Bohemia is about to marry, and a single photograph in the hands of Irene Adler, an opera singer with a brain of the first order and the face of the most beautiful of women, could shatter the engagement and shake a throne; armed with disguises, a smoke rocket, and the cold certainty that no one has ever beaten him, Holmes sets out to recover the photograph — and meets the only adversary who ever saw through him in return; this is the very first Sherlock Holmes short story ever published, the case that made Doyle's detective the most famous in the world and the only case Holmes lost, first printed in The Strand Magazine in July 1891 and collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it, from the Midnight Archive — Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

58 min·No. 159