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John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King. The king allows Holmes to retain the portrait as a souvenir.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered, and his son, James, is implicated. McCarthy, and another local landowner, John Turner, are both Australian expatriates, and Lestrade was originally engaged by Turner's daughter, Alice, who believes James is innocent. Holmes interviews James, and then inspects the scene of the murder, deducing a third man was present. Realising Holmes has solved the case, Turner confesses to the crime, revealing that McCarthy was blackmailing him due to Turner's criminal past.

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance. Holmes does not reveal the truth to Mary because "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman".

A Blue Carbuncle is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Der Priesterdetektiv Pater Brown wird von Scotland Yard beauftragt, einen mysteriösen Fall zu lösen, bei dem sein Glaubensbruder Gabriel verschwunden ist. Da Pater Brown in dieser Angelegenheit persönlich involviert ist und ihm der nötige Weitblick fehlt, bittet er Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Unterstützung. Gemeinsam durchsuchen die Drei die Klosterzelle von Bruder Gabriel und entdecken dabei einen Hohlraum im Boden...

Nachdem Pater Brown, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in Bruder Gabriels Klosterzelle wichtige Unterlagen zu seiner Pflanzenforschung sichergestellt haben, stoßen sie in seinem Chemielabor auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis auf die mittelalterlichen Ruinen im Epping Forest. Schnell machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, da sie befürchten, dass Bruder Gabriel dort einem lebensbedrohlichen pflanzlichen Experiment unterzogen wird...

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Pater Brown treffen sich erneut in der Waltham Abbey, um über die weitere Vorgehensweise im Fall der verschwundenen Mönche zu beratschlagen. Sherlock Holmes glaubt, dass Bruder Gabriel in die mysteriösen Fälle verwickelt ist und unter dem Einfluss einer geheimen Organisation steht, der er in die Hände gefallen ist. Außerdem ziehen Sherlock Holmes und Pater Brown Parallelen zu einer internationalen Serie von Kriminalfällen aus den 1840er Jahren, bei der der international bekannte Auguste Dupin als leitender Detektiv fungierte.

Während Pater Brown eine Eildepesche an Auguste Dupin aufgibt, versucht Sherlock Holmes, aus den Pflanzenexperimenten von Bruder Gabriel schlau zu werden. Doch dieser lässt sich nicht in die Karten schauen und kehrt wieder zurück an die Arbeit im Labor. Als eine Woche später immer noch keine Antwort von Dupin eingetroffen ist, beschließen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson, die Befragung im Kloster ohne seine Unterstützung zu beginnen. Doch noch während sie dabei sind, Bruder Dominik als Ersten auf den Zahn zu fühlen, überschlagen sich auch schon die nächsten Ereignisse...

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