After spiriting a Swiss scientist Dr Franz Tobel to Britain under the noses of the Gestapo it looks as if the RAF are going to get his revolutionary new bomb sight. Of course nothing is that simple; Tobel insists in being in charge of its manufacture and divides the sight into four parts each to be made by separate scientists whose identity only he knows. Just in case anything happens to him he gives a coded note to his fiancée which is to be given to Sherlock Holmes if anything happens to him. Not long afterwards Tobel disappears and so does the note
luckily Holmes can read the message from the imprint of the code so the race is on to decode it. Who will solve it first Holmes or his arch-nemesis Moriarty?
This Sherlock Holmes adventure, made during the War, unsurprisingly has the Nazis as the bad guys even if the dastardly Moriarty is the main villain Holmes must face. The central mystery is intriguing; most notably the code that must be cracked. There are some impressive false starts as it keeps looking as though things will go wrong for Tobel before he is actually kidnapped and when he is the tension rises nicely until Holmes and Moriarty are face to face and it looks as though Holmes is doomed at least to anybody who hadn't seen a single Sherlock Holmes story! Basil Rathbone does an impressive job as Holmes and Lionel Atwill is suitably menacing as Moriarty, there is also solid enough support from Nigel Bruce and William Post Jr as Watson and Tobel. Overall I rather enjoyed this and certainly recommend it to fans of Sherlock Holmes or anyone looking for an inoffensive mystery.
This Sherlock Holmes adventure, made during the War, unsurprisingly has the Nazis as the bad guys even if the dastardly Moriarty is the main villain Holmes must face. The central mystery is intriguing; most notably the code that must be cracked. There are some impressive false starts as it keeps looking as though things will go wrong for Tobel before he is actually kidnapped and when he is the tension rises nicely until Holmes and Moriarty are face to face and it looks as though Holmes is doomed at least to anybody who hadn't seen a single Sherlock Holmes story! Basil Rathbone does an impressive job as Holmes and Lionel Atwill is suitably menacing as Moriarty, there is also solid enough support from Nigel Bruce and William Post Jr as Watson and Tobel. Overall I rather enjoyed this and certainly recommend it to fans of Sherlock Holmes or anyone looking for an inoffensive mystery.