The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes So why should she kill herself? First transmitted on 8 June 2004, this story is based on a reference from Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez": "Here also I find an account of the Addleton tragedy..." One man lies dead, the other seriously wounded. But the resourceful Miss Addleton cannot believe the police's version of events, and engages Holmes to save her father's good name. First transmitted on 15 June 2004, this story is based on a reference from Conan Doyle's novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles": "Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire
The Hound of the Baskervilles of the Empty House" that Holmes had faked his own death. He was assisted with the plot by a 30-year-old "Daily Express" journalist named Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907). His ideas came from the legend of Richard Cabell (d.1677), of Brook Hall, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, Devon, which was the fundamental inspiration for the Baskerville tale of a hellish hound and a cursed country squire. Cabell's tomb survives in the village of Buckfastleigh. Squire Richard Cabell lived for hunting and was what in those days was described as a 'monstrously evil man'. He gained this reputation for, amongst other things,