Loosely based on the real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires
and Pinkerton agent James McParland.
Sherlock Holmes decodes a cipher warning from Moriarty's organization for Douglas in Birlstone, but a corpse is already in place. When Mr.
Douglas blows the head off his American assassin, he dresses the body as
himself and hides to throw off the chase for good. Holmes guesses the
missing dumbbell weighted down the killer's clothes in the moat. The
calling card left, VV341, is the Vermissa Valley Lodge 341. Decades ago a
Pinkerton, he went months undercover, first with Freemen in Chicago,
then west to desolate mountain coal mine area, to take down corrupt
murderers who ran the Valley Freemen Lodge, but criminals had pursued.
Holmes warns Douglas, when acquitted, to flee England. But Moriarty
prevails. Two months later, Mrs. Douglas telegrams from South Africa. Her husband
was lost en route overboard in a gale. Holmes had warned them to flee
England, and blames Moriarty.
Printing History
Written by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Strand Magazine
September 1914 to May 1915
George H. Doran Company
February 1915
The Films
1916
Starring H.A. Saintsbury and Booth Conway
1935
as The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes and Ian Fleming as Watson
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