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An essay on the detective's early attitude toward women.

Celebrated detective Henry von Stray outfoxes a pair of London con artists disguised as police constables who swindle a Belgium refugee of the Great War.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must race against the clock to prevent the imminent execution of the talented performer, Bouncing Betty, who stands accused of the heinous murder of Sir Hubert Pamphilion, a crime of which she is innocent.

A private detective who moonlights as a bounty hunter is hired to find a woman and her 5-year old son, He had tailed her from Texas, through the south, and up the New England Coast, But he has figured where she's headed and arrives on Christmas Evee

This detective treats his solution as an art form, in which truth is beauty rather than reality.

Sherlock Holmes is confronted with the possible second crime by a suspect to whom he had once shown mercy.