Several well-to-do citizens of London commit weird suicides, jumping out of windows in their pyjamas, and even though all of them had been alone in their rooms when they did it, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) suspects murder, argues the very cruelty of the crimes suggests a woman as killer, fakes his own death and emerges as an Indian prince, who soon makes the acquaintance of Adrea Spedding (Gale Sondergaard) at the gambling table (the one linking element between all the suicides), has her persuade him to have his life insured ... and this very night, Holmes finds a poisonous spider in his room which is supposed to kill him, but he manages to turn the tables ...

The next day, Ms Spedding pays Holmes (as Holmes, not as Indian prince) a friendly visit, leaving him on no uncertain terms that she has looked through his little masquerade all along.

With painstaking attention to detail, Holmes and his companion Watson (NIgel Bruce) collect evidence against Ms Spedding, but for the most part, she remains elusive - unbtil Holmes figures she must have a pigmy (Angelo Rossitto) acting as her helper, and where better to hide a pigmy than at a carneval. Holmes and Watson manage to track down Ms Spedding to a shooting gallery, but she manages to seperate them and make Holmes a target at the shooting gallery while she has chosen Watson, who doesn't know what (or who) he's shooting at but who's a brilliant marksman, to be Holmes' executioner. Of course, in the end Holmes manages to get away and lure Ms Spedding into a trap he and his friend inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) have set up ...

Entertaining little flick. Sure, most of the plottwists as well as Holmes's deductions are incredibly far-fetched, and I would even go so far as to call them silly, but things are at least moving at a steady pace, Rathbone's Holmes is spot-on, and Gale Sondergaard makes a worthy opponent. One of the better films of the series, that's for sure.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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