Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.
Written by Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Factual errors:
"Edgware Road" is misspelled ("Edgeware").
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Quotes
[first lines]
Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard:
[voiceover]
I won't forget that morning, not if I live to be a hundred. I counted the men as they marched out of the yard; they'd hardly slept for weeks. We of the CID had slept even less, but the nightmare that kept us awake was all the same nightmare. That's why we weren't surprised when the commissioner asked us up to the conference room for a bit of a talk. He'd talked to us plenty, we knew that, but it didn't help any to know what was ahead of us. See more »
Crazy Credits
After The End was screened the message "You're not giving - just
lending - when you buy war savings stamps and bonds - on sale here.
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