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A travelling salesman is found hanged, and everything points at
suicide, so the case is closed soon enough ... only his wife Jessie (Alvys
Maben) thinks it was murder so she asks Sherlock Holmes (Ronald Howard)
and Doctor Watson (Howard Marion Crawford) for assistance - and they soon
come up with a murder that happened when the deceased was still a child,
the murder of his grandfather, which the boy witnessed, making him the
only one who could identify the killer - but now that he's dead, there is
no more witness for the murder.
Of course, Holmes can soon enough establish that the salesman was
really murdered, and that the killer must have been the same man who
murdered his grandfather - however, the only thing known about the
grandfather's killer is that the man had a limp. Interestingly enough,
Holmes and Watson run into a man with a limp, travelling salesman Baxter
(Philip Leaver), who interestingly enough knew Jessie and her husband -
however, when Holmes has finally put two and two together, it's almost too
late and Baxter is already preparing to hang Jessie, just like he hanged
her husband. Holmes and Watson burst into the room just in the nick of
time, and when Baxter makes an escape through the window, he accidently
hangs himself by his tie in an act of divine justice ...
Rather weak episode that gives away way too much of the case's solution
to the audience way too soon and leaves only Holmes and Watson guessing -
which is rather tiring, actually.
By the way, Archie Duncan, who usually plays inspector Lestrade in the
series, plays his Scottish counterpart in this episode.
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