The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (film) invited to The Diogenes Club by Sherlock's older brother Mycroft. The club hosts the most unsociable men of London, and they have banned talking. Once there, Mycroft, asks him to help Lady Eva Blackwell. She is being blackmailed by one of the most villainous men of London, Charles Augustus Milverton who is demanding £7,000 for some letters he has stolen from her, threatening to release them to the public if she does not pay the ransom. Upon their release, the letters would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement. Sherlock agrees to help her. The same day,
Walter C. Mycroft and psychologist who studied with R.D. Laing. David Mycroft's daughter Ruth Novaczek is a British experimental film maker. Walter C. Mycroft Walter Charles Mycroft (1890 – 14 June 1959) was a British novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. In the 1920s he was film critic of the London "Evening Standard", and a founder of the London Film Society, before joining the film industry. In 1928 he became Literary Adviser and Scenario Editor at the newly founded studio British International Pictures at Elstree, sometimes working with his friend Alfred Hitchcock. He was by his own account the principal author of Hitchcock's