THE CASE OF THE NEUROTIC DETECTIVE: Watson is alarmed by Holmes stranger-than-usual behavior: hiding a necklace in his humidor, taking a date to a formal affair and refusing to help Lestrade capture the criminals stealing England’s state secrets and valuables. After employing disguises and old-fashioned snooping, Watson convinces Lestrade that Holmes is the evil genius behind all the thefts.
THE CASE OF THE ROYAL MURDER: While visiting King Conrad in his Balkan nation, his highness requests Holmes and Watson to prove his innocence when Prince Stephan of a neighboring country dies suddenly at dinner. The circumstantial clues implicate the king, so he has the two tossed into a dungeon cell. Princess Antonia, widow of the prince, attracts suspicion because of her previous love affair with Conrad.
THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET BACHELORS: Candidate Jeffery Bourne is being blackmailed with false abuse charges by a woman he met through a marriage bureau. Holmes and a reluctant Watson investigate the agency by posing as lonely hearts, with Holmes claiming to be a very rich one. As expected, he’s promptly blackmailed as well, but is unexpectedly tossed into jail. It’s up to Watson and Lestrade to burglarize the bureau and find some evidence.
THE CASE OF THE SHOELESS ENGINEER: While out on a walk, Holmes and Watson come upon an injured man wearing only one shoe and carrying a young woman.
THE CASE OF THE HAUNTED GAINSBOROUGH: Malcolm MacGregan will lose his family’s Scottish castle if he can’t make the mortgage payment, by midnight. His attempts to find a buyer for the Gainsborough portrait of his ancestor Heather have failed because her ghost keeps appearing to curse anyone who takes the painting. Holmes believes the haunting has more to do with the greedy mortgage holder than an actual spirit.
THE CASE OF THE EXHUMED CLIENT: Sir Charles Farnsworth’s will states that Holmes is to investigathe is death. He died in the cursed tower his heir, George Welbourne, had dared him to spend the night. When his body is exhumed he is found not to have died from a heart attack as Dr. Henry Reeves said, but from arsenic poisoning. Charles’ sister, Elizabeth, and his ward, Sylvia Taylor, are also suspect. Lestrade wants to arrest Sylvia because she bought the grapes which were the last thing Sir Charles ate.
THE CASE OF THE IMPOSTOR MYSTERY: Holmes and Watson return from a vacation to learn that a Holmes impersonator has been been at work. The phony told Lestrade to guard one jewelry store while he robbed another and stole valuables from a client he told to hide valuables in a biscuit jar. Setting a trap for the impostor, Watson poses as the visiting Maharaja of Gandoor who’s traveling with his huge collection of jewels. As hoped, the master of disguise visits, posing as a reporter, and agrees to introduce the maharaja to the great (fake) Holmes.
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