Reginald Musgrave visits Holmes after the disappearance of two of his domestic staff, Rachel Howells, a maid, and Richard Brunton, the longtime butler. Brunton vanished without his belongings after being dismissed for secretly reading a family document, the Musgrave Ritual. Brunton's former lover, Rachel Howells escaped through a window after being hysterical abour Brunton's missing. Her footprints led to the edge of the mere, and ended there. Musgrave had the mere dredged, but only a sack containing some rusty, mangled bits of metal, and some coloured stones or glass were found. Holmes looked upon the case not as three mysteries, but as one.

Holmes's friend, Mr. Trevor was dying as a result of a stroke suffered after he received a letter. Seven weeks earlier, Hudson an old man, had come looking for work. He proved to be as unruly an employee as could be imagined. He had taken unforgivable liberties which would normally have resulted in an employee's dismissal. He was often drunk. The other staff had complained about him. However, Mr. Trevor always let him get away with any infamy. Because Hudson was his old shipmate. Suddenly, Hudson announced that he was leaving because he had tired of Norfolk, and he was going to Hampshire to see Beddoes, another old shipmate. Now, Mr. Trevor had become thin and careworn by the ordeal. He had thought that the trouble was over when Hudson had left, but then came the letter, from Fordingbridge in Hampshire. It read: "The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen pheasant's life." Holmes found the key. If one read every third word beginning with the first, there was an intelligible message: "The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life." Holmes had deduced that the game was blackmail. Some guilty secret had been the power that Hudson had held over the elder Mr. Trevor. And it involves the name of one ship ; ' Gloria Scott '. First published in the Strand Magazine, Apr. 1893, with 7 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Pycroft is a stockbroker's clerk who had then been taken on by the firm of Mawson and Williams in the City of London. Tthe firm took him on without a face-to-face interview, with arrangements made via the postal system. The job is a good one, and the wages offered more than reasonable. He also receives another job offer, when Arthur Pinnar, of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company visits him in person. The Franco-Midland Hardware Company has nothing to do with stockbroking, and deals with hardware stores on the continent, but the terms of employment are better than those offered by Mawson and Williams. So despite the job being in Birmingham rather than London, Pycroft accepts the new job offer. Quickly though, things don't feel right to Pycroft; and the fact that Arthur Pinnar asks Pycroft not to resign from Mawson and Williams, stating that an argument had left ill-feeling between the two company's. In Birmingham, things are also not what Pycroft expected. The offices are dusty and unsuitable for the expected work, and the work given to Pycroft by Harry Pinnar, Arthur's brother, is meaningless. Pycroft then discovers that Arthur Pinnar and Harry Pinnar are the same person... First published in the Strand Magazine, Mar. 1893, with 7 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Holmes and Watson hear the story of Munro's deception by his wife Effie. She had been previously married in America, but her husband and child had died of yellow fever, whereupon she returned to England and met and married Munro. Their marriage had been blissful-"We have not had a difference, not one, in thought, or word, or deed," says Grant Munro-until she asked for a hundred pounds and begged him not to ask why. Two months later, Effie Munro was caught conducting secret liaisons with the occupants of a cottage near the Munro house in Norbury. Grant Munro has seen a mysterious yellow-faced person in this cottage. Overcome with jealousy, he breaks in and finds the place empty. However, the room where he saw the mysterious figure is very comfortable and well furnished, with a portrait of his wife on the mantelpiece. Holmes, after sending Munro home with instructions to wire for him if the cottage was reoccupied, confides in Watson his belief that the mysterious figure is Effie Munro's first husband. He postulates that the husband, having been left in America, has come to England to blackmail her. First published in the Strand Magazine, Feb. 1893, with 7 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1892, with 9 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Violet Hunter seeks the help of Holmes when she discovers some strange things about a new position as governess for Mr. Jephro Rucastle, a strange man. This man insists to hire Hunter and has raise the salary twice to persuade her to take the job. He also has a vicious mastiff dog who's he seldom fed and the dog is off leash every night. But on top of all, Rucastle seems to keep someone as his secret prisoner... First published in the Strand Magazine, June 1892, with 9 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet - one of the most valuable public possessions in existence - as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewelry in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands. Three beryls are missing from it, and the coronet itself is already broken. In a panic, Holder travels to see Holmes, who agrees to take the case. As Holmes was starting to handle the case, some peculiarities appeared. Arthur is refusing to give a statement of any kind. Holmes then found that even a strong man like him could not break the coronet without making any noise. Holmes begins to believe that Arthur didn't take the beryls. Someone else must have done it. Holmes totally realizes that the failure to resolve the case will result in Mr. Holder's dishonor, and will become a national scandal. Holmes sets about not only reviewing the details that he learns from Holder, but also examining the footprints in the snow outside. Eventually, Holmes solves the mystery, and Holder is flabbergasted to find that his niece Mary was in league with a notorious criminal, Sir George Burnwell, although she is unaware of his character. The two of them escape justice; however, Holmes is convinced that they will receive their punishment in due time. First published in the Strand Magazine, May 1892, with 9 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Flora Millar; a dancer - caused a disturbance at a wedding reception. A mysterious man at the church picked the wedding bouquet dropped by the bride and handed it back to her. Another unknown man was seen going into Hyde Park with the bride. And then Hattie Doran went missing with her wedding dress and ring found washed up on the shore of the Serpentine... First published in the Strand Magazine, Apr. 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

An engineer, by the name of Victor Hatherley, has had his thumb chopped off in a murderous attack. Hatherley had been employed by a shadowy German figure to repair a hydraulic press, and when the engineer had found out too much its operation. First published in the Strand Magazine, Mar. 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a young bride to be who fears that she'll be murdered. Helen Stoner, the stepdaughter of Sir Grimesby Roylott, has reason to believe that her stepfather killed her sister-she just doesn't know how. And the only clue is the last word from the dead sister ; "The Speckled Band" First published in the Strand Magazine, Feb. 1892, with 9 illustrations by Sidney Paget.