The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.

Dr. John Watson treats a patient who has lost a thumb. The patient says that the loss of his thumb was not an accident but the result of an attack. However, he fears that the story behind the loss of his digit is so strange that the police will not believe it.

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

In South America the wife of the president's son loves the leader of the revolution

A London lady comes to Holmes in curiosity about her newest lodger. After first renting the room, arranging for meals and newspaper to be left at the door, and paying a very high fee, he disappears completely. Or, is it someone else now inside the room?

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.

Cardsharpers gas a drunkard and make him think he has killed his wife, so that he helps them plan a bank raid.

An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.