The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Author: J E Harold Terry and Arthur Rose ISBN: 0 86025 915 3 Format: Hardback	£40.00 at Parish Chest

A limited edition of 500 copies in a slip case.

The 1923 production starred Eille Norwood (Doyle’s favourite Holmes) and featured Lady Frances, languishing in a Home tended by Doctor and Miss Schlessinger, the latter enamoured of Charles Augustus Milverton, who blackmails Lady Frances with a forged letter purporting to be from her fiancé. Her physician is Doctor Watson, who, with the help of a detective friend, finds that the heiress is being drugged. Meanwhile, John Clay’s gang, controlled by Sebastian Moran, are tunnelling beneath the house where Lady Frances’ fiancé is being held with the aim of robbing a bank. With the help of a dummy and a District Messenger, Holmes traps the criminals.

Spectacularly illustrated with 23 full page photographs of the original West End production and end-papers from the programme: this is a collectors’ piece to treasure.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: acting edition
Author: Ernest Dudley ISBN: 0 86025 281 7 Format: Hardback	£6.25 at Parish Chest

The 1923 version (above) re-worked for the modern theatre, dropping many extraneous characters and scenes. M7 F3. Two sets – The nursing home and 221B.

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