Silver Blaze - Silver Blaze, the favourite for the Wessex Cup, has disappeared. With only days to go before the race, Holmes has his work cut out for him.

The Yellow Face - Whose is the face at the upstairs window, 'livid, deadly yellow, and with something set and rigid about it which was shockingly unnatural?'

The Stockbroker's Clerk - Young Hall Pycroft finds his suspicions are quickly aroused in his new job by a shoddy office and the odd behaviour of his employer Call for Holmes...

The 'Gloria Scott' - The young Holmes, just down from university, solves his very first case: the mystery of a Justice of the Peace and an old sailor, Hudson - seemingly the devil himself.