Sherlock Holmes in Washington films, George Zucco in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939), and Henry Daniell in "The Woman in Green" (1945). Gerald Hamer, who appeared in four more of Rathbone's Holmes movies, has a brief uncredited, but pivotal, role. Sherlock Holmes in Washington Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales. British secret agent Alfred Pettibone carrying a vital secret document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. The British
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in "The Strand Magazine" between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" identify, and try to correct, social injustices.