Holmes must save a suffragette after Watson meets her and notices she is troubled by a mysterious bearded man.

When a governess is arrested for shooting and killing Maria Gibson, the dead woman's husband needs Holmes's help to prove her innocent.

The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.

Holmes must help James McCarthy when his father is killed after an argument (the subject of which he will not reveal) and young McCarthy is accused of the crime.

Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering but seductively attractive murderer.

The daughter of scientist Professor Presbury sees her father's face at her second-storey window; Holmes connects this with recent zoo thefts.

Holmes and Watson attempt to thwart the schemes of the infamous blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton from blackmailing Lady Eva Blackwell. But things do not seem as easy as they do and Holmes must sacrifice his morality and his honourable career to stop Milverton from wrecking her marriage.

Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of deaths which seem to be related to John Stockton, who is descended from a family rumoured to have been vampires.

Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.