International Crime Detective

A dramatised version of Arthur Conan Doyle's Bruce-Partington Plans is followed by that story's chilling sequel, The Sleeper's Cache. Missing blueprints papers and then a missing spy. Who better than Sherlock Holmes to investigate?

'The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a case involving a young clerk who has been offered a job with a remarkable salary but is most concerned about the peculiar conditions to which he must agree....

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance.