Sherlock Holmes Daily · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes - Second Generation

·29 min·3 clips
Holmes marvels at how easy detective work would be if all clients arrived with both the problem and the solution already prepared.
In retirement at his Sussex bee farm, Sherlock Holmes is visited by Dr. Watson and drawn into a case involving Irene Norton, the daughter of his old adversary Irene Adler. Norton claims she's being blackmailed by Holmes' offensive neighbor Lytton Stanley, but the situation proves more complex than it appears, involving a valuable emerald and a cunning butler.

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A polished Holmes outing where disguise and suspicion turn a house call into a proper mystery.

This Holmes outing leans on disguise, suspicion, and a visit that starts polite and quickly turns sharper. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce keep the Holmes-Watson dynamic steady through the banter and the careful reveals, and the scene at Mr.

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If you like Holmes arriving in disguise, this one opens with the right sort of fraud.

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