The young boy is recovered safely and is reunited with his parents. The supposed secretary hired a man named Reuben Hayes, to help him kidnap his younger half-brother in an effort to force his dad into making him a legitimate heir. James Wilder is no secretary at all, but the Duke's illegitimate son. When confronted, the Duke makes a shocking confession. Their search leads them back around to the boy's own father, the Duke of Holdernesse, and his secretary James Wilder. During their search they find a missing professor dead and fear for the boy's safety. The Adventure of the Priory SchoolĪ young heir goes missing from a fancy boarding school, and the head of the school hires Holmes and Watson to find him. He was also the mystery biker who tried to protect her from Woodley. Carruthers was in on the scheme, but ended up genuinely falling for Violet.

Turns out Violet inherited a lot of money from her dead uncle and Woodley wanted to marry her so he could get it. Holmes connects it all together and arrives in time to save Violet after she's kidnapped by Mr. She also has a strange guy following her on her bike when she rides to the train-station after work. Poor Violet is already engaged and wants them to leave her alone. Carruthers, hires Violet as a governess and then proposes to her. Violet recently came in contact with two friends of her deceased uncle. The Adventure of the Solitary CyclistĪ woman named Violet Smith has had some weird things happen to her lately, and she hires Holmes and Watson to get to the bottom of things. He goes to jail and Elsie Cubitt recovers from her suicide attempt. Cubitt's ex-boyfriend, a criminal from Chicago who wanted to win her back. Who sent the messages and killed Hilton? It was Mrs. Holmes cracks the code, but arrives too late to prevent the death of Hilton and the attempted suicide of his wife. Hilton Cubitt hires Holmes to help him find out who has been sending him weird encoded messages that are freaking out his wife. They do, however, stop a man from stalking a woman.

This one is not nearly as fun as it sounds, alas. Oldacre tried to revenge himself upon McFarlane's parents by faking his death and framing McFarlane.

By using some forensic science and staging a fake fire, Holmes is able to flush Oldacre out of hiding. Despite his protestations of innocence, there's no evidence to be found in his defense. The Adventure of the Norwood BuilderĪ young man named John Hector McFarlane is falsely accused of murdering Jonas Oldacre. With Moran in jail Holmes can now safely return to London and resume his detective business. He and Watson reunite to take down a would-be assassin of Holmes, and murderer of Ronald Adair, Colonel Moran. Holmes dramatically returns from the dead, or from being presumed dead. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Summary The Adventure of the Empty House

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