Quite Elementary Dear Holmes
- Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
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Rupert Everett brings a certain savior fair to the role of Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Silk Stocking. Like Simon Brett, Everett doesn’t shy away from presenting Holmes as boorish and snobbish. If only the writing and the mystery had lived up to his performance.
Dr. Watson (Ian Hart) has left Baker Street and is preparing for his wedding. Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) has removed himself from the mundane crime of London only finding solace in the prick of a syringe. Lured out of his despondency by Lestrade (Neil Dudgeon) and Watson, Holmes tackles a case involving a serial killer who preys on the young daughters of the London elite. Each victim is found dressed in clothes not her own, strangled to death, and with a silk stocking buried in her throat.
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