Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Look!’ There was some milk on a plate on top of the box.

Dr Roylott’s room. Holmes saw a large metal box near the wall.

Why have an air-vent on an inside wall? Air-vents are usually on outside walls.’

Holmes pulled the rope. ‘But it doesn’t work,’ he said.

Nobody could come in from outside,’ he said.

Why are they mending your bedroom wall?’ asked Holmes. ‘There’s nothing wrong with it.’

the gipsies, the whistle, the band - they are more difficult to understand,

our dangerous friend Roylott needs the girls’ money, because he only has £750 a year from his dead wife.