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A special episode narrated solely by Sherlock himself. Holmes tells the tale of Mr. James M. Dodd who came to see Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. After years together in the service, Emsworth is wounded and disappears. After trying to track him down, Dodd eventually finds his friend but he is now a ghostly pale shell of his former friend......but why?

Captain Peter Carey is found harpooned to a wall. He was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailor’s cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. No footprints or other physical evidence are to be found at the scene...

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of 50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet — one of the most valuable public possessions in existence — as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it...