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From the Authors of Books Like: 1. The adventure of the cardboard box 2. The adventure of the red circle 3. The hound of the Baskervilles 4. The sign of the four 5. The valley of fear 6. His last bow 7. Short Stories for High School 8. The White Company 9. The Coming of the Fairies 10. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans 11. A Study in Scarlet 12. Tales of Terror and Mystery 13. The Parasite 14. The Disintegration Machine 15. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holme 16. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes 17. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 18. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Book Summary: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes has twelve stories of the adventures of Holmes and Watson, mostly in their later years. The stories were published in different magazines at different times and were later compiled in the The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone Watson is shown in Holmes’s quarters by Billy, a young help. They discuss Holmes’ new case of finding the Mazarin stone and the two men who may have possibly stolen it, Count Sylvius and Sam Merton. Count Sylvious is clever and cunning, while Sam is just the loyal muscle-man. Holmes fears that the two might be planning to kill him by shooting him thorugh his window and so has a very life-likemwax effigy of him installed in his window. Holmes comes and updats Watson on the new facts of the case. Billy, soon after, comes and informs of Count Sylvius requesting a visit. Holmes and Watson hide in the bedroom as Count is shown into the living room. Holmes gives a note to the Watson with instructions for Scotland Yard and asks him to leave immediately. The count tries to strike on the effigy misunderstanding it to be Holmes when Holmes goes out to meet him. Holmes informs the count of his knowledge about his criminal activities and the witnesses he has, who will implicate the Count. He asks them to surrender the stone or be arrested. He also calls Sam Merton and ask the two men to discuss their situation. Once he leaves, the two men decide to give a false confession to Holmes while deciding to smuggle the diamond, which was in the pocket of the count at the moment, to Amsterdam. Holmes, who had been hiding in the plain sight by impersonating the effigy, catches them red-handed and hands them to the waiting police. Lord Cantlemere comes soon after and Holmes pranks him by placing the diamond in the pocket of a sceptical Lord Cantlemere. Lord Cantlemere is joyous and leaves with the prize. The Problem of the Thor Bridge Holmes is engaged by a Neil Gibson, the Gold King, a ruthless businessman popular for his violent and aggressive nature, for acqutting his governess Miss Grace Dunbar from the charge of murder of his wife. The wife was found dead at the mouth of the Thor bridge with a bullet shot to her head, and a revolverwas found upon investigation in the wardrobe of the gorvernesss. The manager of the client comes abefore the client himself and describes Gibson’ violent ways. Holmes successfully deduces of an infatuation between the businessman and the governess and chides him for his lust. The businessman confesses of having feelings for the Dunbar, as he had nothing in common with his wife whom he married in an impulse for her sheer beauty, but mentions that Dunbar was against an illicit relationship and only helped him be a bit more humane. He also suspects that the murder was an accident as his wife was mentally unstable. Holmes reaches Winchester and examines the murder scene, he notices a chip in the firm and strong parapet. He also learns of a note by Dunbar clutched by the deceased, which he founds suspicious. He meets Dunbar and learns of the wife’s jealousy. She asked Dunbar, in a note which she asked to be burned, to come to Thor Bridge. Dunbar replies via a note, which was later recovered fromt the wife. When she goes to meet her, the wife retaliates with curses and Dunbar rushes back. The next morning, the wife is found dead. On the way back, Holmes asks for Watson’s revolver and uses a stone to weigh it down while holding it. When he drops the revolver, it is sucked into the lake a chip is formed on the parapet. Holmes surmises that the wife committed suicide in the same manner to implicate Dunbar, and used a copy of the revolver as a murder weapon shich she had placed earlier in the day in her wardrobe. The Adventure of the Creeping Man Watson is called upon by Holmes, and he is somewhat annoyed at this. When he reaches Holmes, he founds him deep in thought over a case. His client, Mr. Bennet, comes and explains the condition of his future father-in-law Professor Pressbury, to whom he is also the seceratary. The professor is a man of sharp wit and a good reputation. However, he fell in love with a much younger girl who won’t accept his proposal given his age. The professor then disappears on a foreign journey, to Prague which his household learns through some other source. The professor gets mysterious after this journey. He asks the secretary to not open any letters with a cross marked on them, or to touch a particular wooden box he had brought from his travels. He is also bitten by his much-loved dog twice. He grows more violent and is observed to crawl like an animal by Bennet or climb like a monkey on the walls by Edith, Professor's daughter, in night. Holmes and Watson go to Camford and test Professor’s memory which they find sharp as he is able to recall not calling them to him, rather violently. Holmes deduces form the pattern of the Professor’s ravings and from an address he secretly corresponds to, that he is administering a drug, possibly to become young so as to marry the girl he fancies, that leaves him violent and animal-like. When they arrive nine days later as was the Professor's pattern, they secretly watch him perfom eccentricities like a monkey and provoke his dog in biting him almost fatally. They discover that box, with empty vials and a letter form Lowenstein on the drugs and its side-effects which led to the incident. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Holmes receives a letter from a law firm about a case concerning vampires. He is sceptical when he reads another letter, that is from the client himself who was suggested Holmes by the law firm. Robert Ferguson married for the second time to a beautiful Peruvian woman, who seemed to have taken a dislike to his son by first wife, Jack, who is also a cripple, and has assaulted him twice. She has also been witnessed to suck blood from her baby of a few months by the baby's governess. After Ferguson catches her in the act, she confines to her rooms and Ferguson seeks Holmes’ help. He comes with them to Lemberley and finds Jack over-attached to his father. He also observes a physical ailment in the dog which he is informed appeared lately. Watson attends the wife after her faithful maid compalins of her mistress' ailment and finds the wife in throes of delirioum out of anxiety. Holmes examines the baby's wounds while Jack is present in the room and notices the look of loathing on Jack's face. He writes his deductions and sends them to the wife who then agrees to see them. Holmes breaks in front of them that Jack had been poisoning the baby, which he tested on the dog previously which led to it's paralysis, out of jealousy. The act on the part of the wife was meant to suck poison out of the baby’s body. Holmes leaves the couple to sort their differences after suggesting a long voyage for Jack. The Adventure of the Three Garidebs Watson is informed by Holmes of a fortune if he can find a man with the name of Garrideb. Watson finds one Nathan Garrideb in the phone book, while another one, John Garrideb visits them and is annoyed of their involvement in his matters. He informs them of an american Alexander Garrideb, with a large fortune and no heirs, had divided his property in three parts and would give each part only to a Garrideb, given that all three are present. Nathan involves Holmes in hopes to find the third Garrideb. When John leaves, Holmes tells Watson that his story is false and they visit Nathan who is devoted to his personal museum of strange artifacts of all kinds. John comes suddenly and informs Nathan of the existence of a Howard Garrideb and asks him to meet Howard. Holmes deduces that John is lying but lets Nathan go anyway. He does some research and gets to know that a forger Prescott used to live in Nathan’s apartment before being shot by Killer Evans who has been disguising himself as John Garrideb. Holmes and Watson wait for Evans in Nathan’s apartment after Nathan leaves and discover Evans arriving and opening a gap in the floor. The three men haqve an altercation in which Watson is slightly injured and it is discovered that Prescott’s machinery and counterfeit notes were under Nathan’s apartment……………. About the Author: Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. Its success encouraged Conan Doyle to write more stories involving Holmes but, in 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including 'The Lost World' and various non-fictional works. These included a pamphlet justifying Britain's involvement in the Boer War, for which he was knighted and histories of the Boer War and World War One, in which his son, brother and two of his nephews were killed. Conan Doyle also twice ran unsuccessfully for parliament. In later life he became very interested in spiritualism.