Time Detectives

Somewhere between the fact and fiction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation stole the soul of Jeremy Brett, the actor who would become the embodiment of the Baker Street sleuth. The Curse of Sherlock Holmes follows Jeremy as he fights for his sanity and his life. This is the full script of the play by Dhanil Ali.

In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published...

A relaxing break on the Greek island of Friktos should be the perfect tonic for the amateur sleuth Kempston Hardwick. That is, until someone brutally murders one of his fellow tourists. The assembled guests can only come to one conclusion: One of them is the killer. But how do you find a murderer when everyone has a hidden agenda? Will Hardwick manage to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again?

When TV psychic Oscar Whitehouse is found murdered inside a locked room, private detective Kempston Hardwick and his friend Ellis Flint are called in to investigate. Within a matter of days, a second murder takes place in the small village of Tollinghill and a local resident claims she saw the already-dead Oscar Whitehouse at the scene, apparently alive and well. Hardwick and Flint realize they have more than just a conventional mystery on their hands. Can they uncover the secret of the Tollinghill murders before it’s too late?

Die Erschöpfung einer langen Nachtfahrt zwingt Professor van Dusen und Hatch, sich in einem abgelegenen kleinen Hotel einzuquartieren. Eigentlich eine gute Gelegenheit, die in letzter Zeit zwischen ihnen brodelnden Konflikte näher zu besprechen … wenn da nicht zur unpassendsten Zeit ein Mord geschehen und das Hotel von finsteren Gestalten umzingelt würde. Denn leider war das Opfer der Geldkurier eines skrupellosen Gangsterbosses und dieser gibt van Dusen nur wenige Stunden Zeit, dessen verschwundenes Geld zu finden, ehe er zu drastischen Maßnahmen greift.

Frühling 1887: Was geht in der Nachbarschaft des jungen Hopfenhändlers Grant Munro vor, und was hat seine Frau Effie damit zu tun? Als Munro den beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe bittet, ist er völlig aufgelöst. Noch rätselhafter werden die von Munro geschilderten Vorfälle, als er auch noch von einem furchterregenden gelben Gesicht erzählt, das er aus der Ferne in einem Fenster seines Nachbarhauses gesehen hat.