Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector is a collection of seven short stories featuring Dr Johnson as a Sherlock Holmes-like detective with Boswell as his Dr Watson-inspired sidekick. The stories are based, to some extent, on known historical mysteries, myths, or situations. The volume was succeeded by three further collections, making for a total of thirty-three detective stories. 

Stories included in Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector are:

• the Unmasking of the Flying Highwayman
• the singular Episode of the Monboddo Ape Boy
• the Recovery of Prince Charlie's vanisht Ruby
• the stolen Christmas Box
• the pilfer'd Great Seal of England
• the Detection of the mysterious Visitant in Mincing Lane
• the macabre Affair of the Wax-Work Cadaver