Sort by Streaming Rights Available The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes adapted by Jon Jory Drama | 90 - 100 minutes 4 W, 6 M, (8-26 actors possible: 3-14 W, 5-20 M) Productions (55) (24) (He goes out at window), (Brief pause. 636 pages : 25 cm Here, reproduced in complete facsimile, are the original Sherlock Holmes detective stories as they first appeared in the famed British magazine "The . kindly step over and get 'im something to put on it. It looks all roight to me. It would be a crime for me to think of such a thing! A short deadly pause. LARRABEE: No. BASSICK (to LARRABEE): Where have you had the people? WATSON (toying with a cigarette and laughing): Ha, ha, ha! You must not be alarmed old fellow. MADGE: She must tell you. LARRABEE is still near lamp, looking at package of papers which he took from his pocket.). (Starting as if to go. (WATSON goes into surgery PRINCE watching him like a cat. (Moves about restlessly but stops when MADGE speaks.). (HOLMES is near piano. LARRABEE (after the pause glances nervously round once, fearing he heard something): Go on! HOLMES: Yes well, when Miss Faulkner comes down you can go and arm yourself. MORIARTY: Don't put it out cover it with something. LARRABEE (going doggedly): I'll look out for that. PARSONS: A lady sir (WATSON looks up) and she wants to see you most particular, sir! SIR EDWARD: I'm very sorry to hear this. What does this mean! I have had a trifle of experience in the selection of my servants and can recognize certain things when I see them! Hand me a piece of that rope. (Goes to and looks off and up stairway. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE PRINCESS JEWEL - Paperback or Kindle editions. ), HOLMES (screaming after him): Then bring your cab in here. I suppose you think you can read me like a book. HOLMES (turning from ALICE but keeping left hand back upon her hands into which he put the package as if to make her keep it. (Goes to piano in front of LARRABEE.) LARRABEE (quick turn on PRINCE): What's that? MADGE: Don't you worry, we'll attend to it! ), MADGE (standing on ottoman): Tall, slim man in a long coat soft hat smooth face carries an ebony cane (Short, quick exclamation from PRINCE.). Wide double-doors opening to the hall and street door. TRSE: He could not, madame. (PARSONS goes out. (FORMAN at once goes to MADGE and turns her and waits in front of window holding her right wrist.). ", HOLMES: Who thus addresses me? TRSE: I beg you to pardon me, sir, ze boy he say to come right up as soon as I come. (Music. It's an old timer and no mistake! Stage directionslightspositionbusinesswith which all . McTAGUE takes handkerchief from pocket to use as gag. Bolt of door slides back when door shuts.). You've used it before. PDF The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes Let me assure let me assure you (voice trembles) that the worst is yet to come. He not only directed this conspiracy against you, but he advised the making of the counterfeit package as well. MADGE: It's all right, Jim. Then the greatest criminal trial of the century the clearing up of over forty mysteries and the rope for every one. FORMAN (hurriedlyto prevent her from speaking it): Yes, yes! (After slight pause MORIARTY slowly takes his hand from behind his back and holds it with the other in front of him. A melodrama for younger actors, pitting Holmes & Watson against a deadly enemy following the theft of a famous jewel. There are no windows. Script - Search Results He went down he deed not return. Sherlock - Writersroom (LARRABEE looks at HOLMES contemptuously. HOLMES: I shall be very glad to explain. Well take them out through the warehouse and down by the circular stairway and then bring them up here by the long tunnel Yes, here Look them over as you go along to see they're not carrying anything and watch that no one sees you come down Yes (Hangs up ear-piece, turns and looks at MORIARTY.) WATSON: There, there, Mrs. Seaton pray control yourself. WATSON: I'll tell you myself Miss Faulkner. Then you'll see this gentleman, sir? HOLMES: Quite so, of course. Text of the play written by Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. (Goes out). You'll have to watch for some sharp trick, sir. You will kindly , (Enter at door a white-haired old gentleman in black clerical clothes, white tie, etc., assisted by PARSONS and the DRIVER. Author (alternate script) None. HOLMES (during business): Who sent him down? BASSICK crosses to table and Places lamp on it.). Miss Holmes by Christopher Walsh Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily by Katie Forgette The Irregulars by Reginald Edmund Sherlock Holmes Meets the Bully of Baker Street by David Hansen Sherlock Holmes Vs. Godzilla by Ben Schroth A fireplace with cheerful grate fire burning, throwing a red glow into room. BASSICK (from same position): The opening is planked up solid sir as you can see and double thickness. There may be something in that. HOLMES: Step in and walk about, then. (BILLY does so placing it so that it is within easy reach of HOLMES.). I think the gentlemen have arrived. Nods them to proceed. Some very choice pictures and etchings hang on the walls here and there, but the pictures do not have heavy gilt frames. I'll just get at her for a minute. Quickly.) (Turns to TRSE.) MORIARTY slowly advances towards HOLMES. We shall read graphic accounts in to-morrow's papers of a very difficult arrest he succeeded in making at Dr. Watson's house in Kensington. I shall endeavour to make them so. HOLMES (standing still): Well, I should think so! When half-way to the door he stops suddenly, listening; then begins to glide backward toward table, stops and listens eyes to the front; turns towards door listening. HOLMES: Everything! WATSON (rising rather hard voice): I could not get him to come madam. Now that this is all over, I suppose you imagine that your room will no longer be required. Use it only for what you wish! Do you hear me? PRINCE: Well, then, if she's got the thing out of the box there ain't it quite likely she's sent 'em along to the girl as 'e wants to marry. The script is a substitution cypher in which each letter of the Latin alphabet is substituted for a picture . WATSON (turning and looking at HOLMES in astonishment): Holmes, if you'd lived a few centuries ago, they'd have burned you alive. MADGE strikes a few preliminary chords during above business and soon begins to play the composition spoken of. CRAIGIN (threateningly): Werry sorry sir but I cawn't wait till morning Its got to be settled to night. Then back left cuff of shirt a little. PRINCE drops down to work real work now at desk. The door slowly swings open. In SHERLOCK HOLMES' rooms in Baker Street the large drawing-room of his apartments. LARRABEE: Shut her in there (Pointing to cupboard), (LEARY and CRAIGIN, almost on the word, take her to cup board. ), (ALICE hesitates an instant then decides to remain standing for the present. PARSONS: They would bring 'im in, sir. ), (LEARY catches up lantern and swings it near the cupboard door. (Looks fiercely to MORIARTY. LARRABEE: I understand. TIME Sometime during February of 1905. All very quick, BILLY dressed as a street gamin and carrying a bunch of evening papers). And the money obtained from both these sources shall be divided as follows: you will take one hundred per cent, and I nothing. HOLMES: Well, by Jove! She's juggled the lock. Billy! William Gillette (July 24, 1853 - April 29, 1937) was an American actor, playwright and stage-manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Watches from above sullenly. PRINCE: Jim and Madge Larrabee here, which you used to know in early days, they have picked up a girl at 'Omburg, where her sister had been havin' a strong affair of the 'eart with a very 'igh young foreign nob who promised to marry 'er but the family stepped in and threw the whole thing down. Door opens. Do you hear! Dr. Watson. Plainly showing the clutch of a man's fingers? An' w'en he strikes it means death. HOLMES (who has been watching him through foregoing speech): Thanks hardly any trouble at all to send a card. Others have turned so as to avoid suspicion if Holmes comes in on them): There ain't no lock on this 'ere door. Wait here! But I have an idea that he will before long. Get hold of her again when I tell you. It will be such a blow to your reputation that you , HOLMES: There is nothing to do, Sir Edward I am ruined ruined , ALICE (coming forward): He is not ruined, Sir Edward. This page was last modified on 1 December 2018, at 19:56. They stop. It is a little speculation of your own. I nabbed a friend of yours in this place while he was trying to drop himself out of that window. (Sneeringly.) Good night, Mr. Holmes. It's a lie! Ah! Throws himself languidly into chesterfield and leans back in luxurious enjoyment of the drug.). ), HOLMES (quick sharp): Ah! (Looks questioningly at HOLMES.). It's one o' those things it'll fall open if you let it alone long enough! FORMAN: Pardon me for mentioning it, ma'am, but she is a bit singular, as I take it. (pause. TRSE stands looking after them. BASSICK: But we cannot negotiate those letters until we know who they incriminate. ALICE (looking at them terrified): They don't obey you. (A sudden sharp glance at LARRABEE and back in an instant.). ALICE: I don't know who you are, Mr. Holmes, or why you are here. ), Good evening (Walks out and the sound of heavy door closing is heard outside), (Pause LARRABEE and MADGE stand where HOLMES left them. HOLMES: It is quite evident however that he failed to do so. What is the shortest Sherlock Holmes' story? | Homework.Study.com She insists that she must speak to you herself. FORMAN (finally in a low painful voicewhispers hoarse): Shall I go sir? Strong bars outside back of windows, to show when window is broken. I understand you to say through our private telephone that you've got something with Sherlock Holmes against you. She is unable to see anyone her health is so poor. ), HOLMES: But my dear Miss Faulkner, before you , (A confused noise of shouting and terrified screams from below followed by sounds of people running up a stairway and through the halls. Quarter past ten that gives you three quarters of an hour to reach home. There's somebody 'urt, sir, an' they're a-wantin' you! (Looking straight before him to front.) PRINCE moves toward door, watching WATSON through it. LARRABEE: I tell you it wouldn't be safe for him to marry until he gets them out of the way! MADGE: Why, of course, Sid whatever you think is due for opening the box. (PARSONS puts portmanteau down as indicated.). Glass shade to lamp of whitish colour. WATSON: Really! The game's afoot and the legendary friendship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is born, as they face a quartet of the most confounding crimes to ever cross the threshold of 221B Baker Street.