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"The Gloria Scott" case dates to Sherlock Holmes college years, and is the first time that Holmes used his powers of "deduction" as more than a hobby. As Holmes relates the case to Watson, he was visiting his college friend's family, and stumbled into a family secret involving blackmail and murder. In "The Adventure of Yellow Face," there's a family secret of another sort; Grant Munro's wife Effie is desperately hiding her interest in a recently occupied cottage, wherein a mysterious yellow face can be seen at the window. Here, Doyle takes on a racial issue, with reasonably admirable sensitivity. Holmes fails to deduce the secret, and advises Watson: "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
In "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk," Holmes uncovers an elaborate hoax designed involving the clerk, a cache of railway bonds, and a con artist. In "The Final Problem," Holmes meets his arch-enemy, the evil Professor Moriarty. Watson determines that the two met and engaged in a terrible struggle above the Reichenbach Falls, and plunged to their death. However, Doyle left himself a way "out" -- and resurrected Holmes a few years later for more stories.
In audio version, these stories were clearly delivered by a talented narrator (Robert Hardy), and I enjoyed this way to reacquaint myself with tales that I'd read many years ago.
Note: In the box that holds the tapes, the text falsely asserts that "The Final Problem" was originally entitled "The Case of the Engineer's Thumb." The mistake is both silly and inexplicable. On the other hand, as an excellent touch, the box includes Sidney Paget's classic illustration of the life-and-death struggle between Holmes and Moriarty above the falls, one that can be viewed at the following link. ( )