"Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine." -- THOR
	Holmes summed up his career shortly before his famous battle with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls by saying he had been engaged in "over a thousand" cases [FINA]. In The Second Stain, Watson tells us he has notes on many hundreds "to which I have never alluded".
	As we read the Canon Watson tantalizes us by references to several dozen unpublished cases. Here is a list, admittedly incomplete, of some of those cases which may rest, waiting only to be found, in that legendary dispatch-box.
	Unchronicled Case   Referenced In       The Abergavenny Murder   Priory School       The Dreadful Business of the Abernetty Family   Six Napoleons       The Cutter Alicia   Thor Bridge       The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch   Musgrave Ritual       The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society   Five Orange Pips       The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee   Scandal in Bohemia       Huret, The Boulevard Assassin   Golden Pince-Nez       The Black Pearl of the Borgias   Six Napoleons       The Camberwell Poisoning Case   Five Orange Pips       Wilson, The Notorious Canary Trainer   Black Peter       The Conk-Singleton Forgery Case   Six Napoleons       The Case of the Two Coptic Patriarchs   Retired Colourman       The Dundas Separation Case   Case of Identity       Mrs. Farintosh and the Opal Tiara   Speckled Band       The Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland   Norwood Builder       The Singular Adventure of the Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa   Five Orange Pips       The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van   Noble Bachelor       The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden   Solitary Cyclist       The Delicate Mission for the Reigning Family of Holland   Scandal in Bohemia       The Repulsive Case of the Red Leech and The Terrible Death of Crosby the Banker   Golden Pinc-Nez       The Woman at Margate with No Powder on Her Nose   Second Stain       The Case of Mme. Montpensier   Hound of the Baskervilles       The Question of the Netherland-Sumratra Co. and of the Collossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis   Reigate Squires       The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber   Five Orange Pips       The Case of Isadora Persano and The Remarkable Worm Said to be Unknown to Science.   Thor Bridge       The Case of James Phillimore   Thor Bridge       The Case of The Politician, The Lighthouse, and The Trained Cormorant   Veiled Lodger       Major Prengergast and the Tankersville Club Scandal   Five Orange Pips       The Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra (which the world is not yet ready to hear)   Sussex Vampire       A Full Account of Ricoletti of the Club Foot and His Abonimable Wife   Musgrave Ritual       The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman   Musgrave Ritual       The Case of the King of Scandanavia   Noble Bachelor       The Facts Connected with the Loss of the British Barque Sophy Anderson   Five Orange Pips       The Case of Archie Stamford, The Forger   Solitary Cyclist       Henry Staunton, who Holmes helped Hang   Missing Three-Quarter       The Adventure of the Tired Captain   Naval Treaty       Record of the Tarlington Murders   Musgrave Ritual       The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca   Black Peter       The Case of the Trepoff Murder in Odessa   Scandal in Bohemia       The Card Scandal of the Nonpariel Club   Hound of the Baskervilles       The Circumstances Attendant on the Death of Van Jamesen, in Utrecht, in the year '34   Study in Scarlet       The Case of Vamberry the Wine Merchant   Musgrave Ritula       The Little Affair of the Vatican Cameos   The Hound of the Baskervilles       The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness   Engineer's Thumb       The Case of Wilson The Notorious Canary-Trainer   Black Peter
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