Sherlock: 10 Stories We'd Love To See Adapted

The hugely anticipated third series of the BBC's Sherlock starts this week. Fans everywhere have spent the best part of two years speculating wildly over how the eponymous genius consulting detective survived his fall at the end of Series 2 to return this New Year's Day for the start of Series 3. With their questions surrounding their hero's survival about to be answered, the Sherlock fandom is likely to turn its interest to the new narratives on offer and new cases for the detective to solve.

Readers of the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will, of course, have some advantage when it comes to thinking about how the plots of future series will develop. For those fans it is always interesting to see how the BBC series and writer-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat re-interpret Doyle's source material. In some cases - the source for The Hounds of Baskerville is obvious - it is a case of re-imagining a whole story, in others - such as the use of the Bruce-Partington Plans in Series 1's The Great Game - it is a smaller reference point in a larger story.

Doyle wrote sixty stories and novels involving Holmes and Watson so the six episodes we have seen so far and the three in Series 3 have only just scratched the surface of possible material. In this list we look at 10 classic Doyle-Holmes stories that we'd like to see adapted both in the coming series of Sherlock and any future parts.