An imaginative attempt to combine historical speculation, conspiracy thriller, and the world of Conan Doyle. Adapted largely from Stephen Knight's book The Final Solution, it has Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigating the Jack the Ripper murders, and coming up with an answer that involves royalty, Parliament and the Masons!
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: TERROR BY NIGHT (1946)
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Holmes, Watson and a plethora of potty passengers are all aboard the London to Edinburgh express. As the train rattles on its way, so does the mayhem, with a corpse turning up in a carriage and a false-bottomed coffin in the guard's van. Will the stealthy sleuths solve the mystery? Elementary... As fast-paced, tightly-woven a Sherlock Holmes mystery as you will find.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1988) (1988)
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When Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the Devonshire moors under mysterious circumstances rumours of a family curse remerge. His American nephew and heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, decides to open up the ancestral hall and appoints Holmes and Watson to investigate Sir Charles's death and the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. An excellent rendering of one of the better known Sherlock Holmes adventures, and a must for all crime thrillers fans!
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SIGN OF FOUR (1987)
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Jenny Seagrove plays Mary, the recipient of pearls from a mysterious benefactor in this Sherlock Holmes tale. The pearls have appeared each year since her father disappeared ten years previously. With the help of Holmes and his trusty companion Watson, they take on the challenge of unravelling the mystery of the Sign of Four following a brutal murder.
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THE ILLUSIONIST (2006)
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(Fictitious) ambitious Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Leopold is politically advantageously engaged to beautiful Hungarian aristocrat Sophie, but her heart is set on an old teenage flame, the illusionist Eisenheim. The story is seen through the eyes of Leopold's protegee police inspector Uhl, whose surveillance duties include 'protecting' Sophie. Telling you too much of the intriguing plot would spoil the story but trust me - it's very good. Clues are discreetly there, the characters developed, t
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THE WEIGHT OF WATER (2007)
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Jean and Thomas decide to take a sailing holiday in an attempt to rekindle their fading marriage, perhaps unwisely they also take Thomas' brother and his girlfriend. Jean, a newspaper photographer, who is teetering on the edge of a breakdown, researchs the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873, and discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jea
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WOMAN IN GREEN (1945)
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The evil Professor Moriarty makes his last screen appearance in this entertaining murder mystery. When a spate of strange killings mystify the police, Holmes and Watson find themselves on the trail of a gang of blackmailers who, cunningly, use an attractive lady hypnotist to further their foul deeds.
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