Sherlock Holmes told his friend Watson that the case of “The Gloria Scott” was the beginning of his career as a professional
detective. It occurred during his student days, and it concerned theft, murder and blackmail.

The complex problem of “Wisteria Lodge” gave him plenty of scope. And set him in friendly rivalry with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary, the only police official who was unarguably his equal as a detective.

This story comes from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, the last of the nine books about the great detective to be written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Mazarin Stone, being based on a stage play, The Crown Diamond.

While rewriting Conan Doyle’s script, the American actor William Gillette famously asked, “May I marry Holmes?” The author replied, “You may marry or murder, or do what you like with him!”

FIVE YEARS AFTER the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the hands of his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, The Strand Magazine published two apparently unrelated mystery stories, each quoting an un-named criminal investigator. Devotees have long debated the identity of this person: was he Sherlock Holmes or not? In this ingenious new play, M J ELLIOTT assumes that Holmes and Watson did investigate the mysterious murder on the Rugby express.

FIVE YEARS AFTER the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the hands of his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty, The Strand Magazine published two apparently unrelated mystery stories, each quoting an un-named criminal investigator. Devotees have long debated the identity of this person: was he Sherlock Holmes or not? In this ingenious new play, M J ELLIOTT assumes that Holmes and Watson did investigate the baffling disappearance of a special train.

This story also comes from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. In The Veiled Lodger Homes and Watson are listeners with us to the story of a past crime – but what a story it is! Devotees will recognise elements from Conan Doyle’s apocryphal tale ‘The Field Bazaar’.

Before BBC Radio 4’s dramatisation of the complete Sherlock Holmes Canon, THE YELLOW FACE had never been adapted for radio. Until now! Now this most elusive adventure is available in a witty and exciting new dramatisation by M J ELLIOTT.

THE THREE STUDENTS was broadcast in the early 1950s on the Light Programme, in Children’s Hour, but no recordings exist. And that’s all. Until now! Now this most elusive adventure is available in a witty and exciting new dramatisation by M J ELLIOTT.

From the first volume of Dr Watson’s chronicles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Beryl Coronet takes Holmes and Watson into a world of high society and high finance. Not for the first time, or the last, they must deal with the indiscretions of a truly illustrious client.

The Speckled Band” is an altogether darker business – a tale of madness, violence and gothic suspense. Dr Grimesby Roylott (wonderful name!) is one of the classic villains, and the story has consistently ranked among the all-time favourites since it was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891.

Holmes’s investigation in the 1890’s of the events at Shoscombe Old Place – the eccentric behaviour of Sir Robert Norberton and the sinister mystery of the haunted crypt – was triumphantly successful.

The case of ‘The Five Orange Pips’, from the late 1880s, was one of Sherlock Holmes’ rare failures: he identified the doom that stalked the Openshaw family, but could not prevent the murder of his client.

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, Dr Watson drops tantalising hints about other cases of the great detective. Here we attempt to reconstruct one of these unpublished exploits.

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, Dr Watson drops tantalising hints about other cases of the great detective.