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Dr Watson (Howard Marion Crawford) finds a diamond tooth near River
Thames, puts an ad in the paper to return it to its rightful owner, and
soon enough, a sailor, Harkins (Charles Brodie) shows up to retrieve it -
but Watson's friend Sherlock Holmes (Ronald Howard) reveals Harkins to be
a fraud.
A short time later, Holmes and Watson learn from their friend inspector
Lestrade (Archie Duncan) that a dead body was found not far from where
Watson found the tooth, a big man with every bone in his body broken, and
it doesn't take Holmes long to deduct that the tooth and the dead man are
actually connected - so they go to the next pub by the river, dressed up
all as sailors, to do a little undercover investigation ... and before you
know it, they are made captives by none other than Harkins, who turns out
to be the killer of the piece, and locked away in the cargo hold of a
nearby boat with a boa constrictor - which actually did kill the deceased.
Fortunately enough though, Holmes and Watson find the back door of the
cargo hold and ... case solved.
None of the episodes of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes-series
by Sheldon Reynolds are really exciting, primarily probably because good
murder mysteries take more than 25 minutes to unfold, but this one is
especially disappointing as it doesn't even try to set up a mystery plot
and leaves its plot twists almost entirely to coincidence - which is never
a good thing for this kind of story ...
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