Classic Detective Stories

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• The Story of the Naval Attache by Richard Harding Davis

  October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  On a winter night when London has quite forgotten the idea of light, an American naval attaché loses his way in the yellow murk near Knightsbridge. The streets are gone, the landmarks drowned; only an occasional scrap of gaslight or…

• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle

  September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

  Miss Violet Hunter has been offered a post as governess at a salary so far above the ordinary. The conditions attached are small, and each on its own might be put down to an employer's eccentricity. She goes a handsome house in the…

• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Arthur Conan Doyle

  September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

  On a bitter winter morning in London, a respected banker arrives at Baker Street half‑mad with terror. In his keeping was one of the most precious ornaments of the British Empire; now it lies twisted and mutilated, and every sign points to…

• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle

  September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  A bride vanishes from her own wedding breakfast. Her clothes are found floating in the Serpentine. A jealous woman is taken away by the police. Every sign points toward something dark, something final — and yet Sherlock Holmes, reading the…

• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb by Arthur Conan Doyle

  September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

  A young hydraulic engineer is offered an unusually generous fee for a small, secret piece of work. The commission requires absolute discretion; the journey must be made at night; and the house to which he is taken seems designed to vanish…

• The Man With The Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes) by A. Conan Doyle

  September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

  In a reeking opium den on the riverside, Dr Watson is looking for a lost soul when he stumbles on something stranger than any drugged vision: an old man who isn’t what he seems, and a disappearance that may not be a crime at all. Clothes…

• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle

  August 30, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

  Five dried orange pips, sent through the post with no letter, no explanation, only three initials scrawled beneath them. Twice before, the same type of letter arrived at an English door. Twice, within weeks, a man was dead. Now a third…

• A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

  August 11, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  A woman comes to Baker Street with a hundred pounds a year, a typewriter, and a fiancé who has vanished into thin air as if he had never existed at all. Sherlock Holmes never leaves his chair but deduces its solution anyway. Somewhere in…