He died just like his sister, sitting at the table. In the morning, Mortimer Trigennis is found dead. Sterndale wants to find out from the great detective the details of what happened. On the way to Africa, he received a telegram from the priest, dropped everything and returned. Leon Sterndale, a distant relative of the Trigennis family, visits Holmes. In the evening, the famous explorer of Africa, Dr. The tragedy occurred a few minutes after Mortimer left. He is interested in the fact that in warm time the family lit a fireplace. He visits the room in which the tragedy occurred. The great detective undertakes to investigate this matter. The housekeeper who entered the room in the morning became ill, and she opened the window. Nothing was stolen, all things were in perfect order. All three of them had unimaginable fear on their faces.

The next morning, the brothers and sister were found in the same poses at the table, the sister was dead, and the brothers went crazy. No one else entered the house, though it seemed to Mortimer that bushes were moving outside the window, as if someone was sitting in them. He left them at the beginning of the eleventh. One evening, Mortimer came to visit them, they played cards, drank tea.

Mortimer's family lives in the village: two brothers and a sister. Mortimer Trigennis - a wealthy man, but unsociable and sad. Holmes made friends with a local priest, who rents a room, Mr. Watson rest in one of the villages of Cornwell. The researcher, in love with the man’s sister, takes revenge for the deceased by executing the killer with the same poison. Enjoyable: historic.British literature summaries - Short summary - The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle VERY BRIEFLYĪ man kills his family because of an inheritance with the help of a poison stolen from a famous explorer of Africa.

Probably these two-reel Stoll shorts didn't get much marketing in America-Hollywood productions were going strong by the '20's and maybe there wasn't much interest. Orson Welles, in an introduction to a radio production, paid high tribute to Gillette Bosley Crowther, an influential New York theater critic, wrote 'I would rather see William Gillette play Sherlock Holmes than to be a child again on Christmas morning.' At eighty-three years old, he starred in the very first Holmes radio show, on 20 October 1930. Mr Norwood set a high standard for subsequent Holmes interpreters, though it appears William Gillette, who played the part on stage for twenty years, exerted more of an influence. I hope more of there titles turn up, and I hope someone restores these shorts someday. The staging is good the acting fine the action fairly crisp. Here is a great Holmes story, well adapted and produced on location-at least, the exteriors look like Cornwall.

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