Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes volume 10
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Sherlock Holmes tracks down a criminal who uses a young girl to lure victims into empty houses, where they are then murdered.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 30
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After a notorious criminal is killed by a milk-wagon, Lestrade finds a coded message in the man's clothing, and asks Holmes to decipher it. The investigation leads Holmes to assume the dead man's identity and travel all the way to Paris.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 31
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After Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his castle, a clause inserted into his will firmly requests that his death only be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Testing reveals traces of arsenic in Farnsworth's body, and suspects abound.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 27
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When Russell Partridge tells his wife Janet that he murdered his six previous wives, and that she has one day before the same fate will befall her, Janet finds no assistance anywhere, except with Holmes and Watson, who set into action.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 32
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A condemned man that is scheduled to hang the following day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 33
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A political leader is blackmailed. To find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a marriage bureau. However, things do not go quite as planned, and Holmes ends up arrested and thrown into jail.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 37
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A boy asks Holmes to help him find his missing father. Upon further investigation, it is revealed that the man is a gambler, and is currently on the run from his creditors. Holmes and Watson soon enter the seedy underworld of gambling.
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Sherlock Holmes volume 20
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A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball intending only to draw attention to a local cause she supports. When the bomb is switched with a real croquet ball, it explodes upon use, killing a member of Parliament.