by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Detective Fiction · Ratiocination Detection · Crime and Punishment
Abstract
A stage play co-written with William Gillette, combining elements of several Holmes stories into an original plot. Holmes is drawn into the schemes of the criminal Larrabee gang, who hold captive a young woman, Alice Faulkner, possessing compromising letters, while Holmes’s old nemesis Professor Moriarty plots his destruction.
Connections
Forms & Genres: Verse Drama, Detective Fiction, Melodrama Themes & Concepts: Ratiocination Detection, Crime and Punishment, Justice Right and Wrong, Deception, Secrecy and Concealment Motifs: Letters and Writing, Secrets, Money and Gold Settings: London Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Professor Moriarty Archetypes: Detective, Villain