A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

Year: 1933

Runtime: 72 mins

Language: English

Director: Edwin L. Marin

ThrillerMysteryCrimeThrillers and murder mysteriesIntriguing and suspenseful murder mysteries

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew takes the estates of deceased members and divides them among the living. As members start dying—James Murphy’s widow asks Holmes for help, Captain Pyke is shot, Malcolm Dearing and Mr. Baker are murdered—Holmes probes the shady Merrydew, the mysterious Chinese widow of Pyke, and a plot against newcomer Eileen Forrester. His sharp observations are put to the test.

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