April 18, 1955 An advice columnist, Alex Doogle, advises a young woman to break up with her violent and insanely jealous boyfriend. The jilted boyfriend then beats Doogle, who turns to Sherlock Holmes, both for his own protection and to save the young woman from her crazed fianc?.
April 25, 1955 A baby is left on Holmes’ and Watson’s doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid an international scandal.
May 2, 1955 Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer and she has one day to get her affairs in order before he murders her. Janet can get no one to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the killer.
May 9, 1955 A traveling salesman is found hanged in his hotel room. Although the police eventually rule it to be a suicide, his widow thinks otherwise and asks Holmes to investigate the mysterious ~~suicide~~ further.
May 16, 1955 Holmes and Watson return from a vacation to find an impostor Holmes has misadvised Lestrade to guard Hambleburg’s, not Carrolton’s, jewelry store and Sir Arthur to hide his valuables in the biscuit jar.
May 23, 1955 After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Lestrade finds a coded note in the man’s clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes’ subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster’s identity and follow a trail of clues to Paris.
May 30, 1955 Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes.
June 6, 1955 A condemned man scheduled to hang the next day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.
June 20, 1955 A political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a lonely hearts club. However, things don’t go quite as planned, and Holmes winds up getting arrested and thrown in jail.
June 27, 1955 As payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at an estate in the Balkans. However, their vacation is cut short when another guest, Prince Stefan, is poisoned and their host is accused of the murder. Holmes must find the real killer.
July 4, 1955 This is the story of the hunt for the MacGregan treasure — and curse. The villain would be the castle’s foreclosing morgage holder, Archibald Ross.
July 11, 1955 Holmes begins acting even stranger than usual — he tries to keep Watson from seeing the diamond necklace in his humidor, refuses to help Lestrade with the crime wave, dresses up to go with a Miss Jennifer Ames to a dance!