Sherlock Holmes - the Crooked Man/the Speckled Band

Jeremy Brett stars as Sherlock Holmes in these two adaptations taken from the classic ITV series. In 'The Crooked Man' a scandal is threatening thehonour of the Army and suddenly Colonel James Barclay is found dead. His wife Nancy is immediately suspected of murder, but who is the strange, crooked man who holds the key to the mystery? 'The Speckled Band' tells the story of Julia Stoner's enigmatic dying words that have haunted her younger sister for the last two years. In desperation she asks for the help of Holmes and Watson, who discover an undetectable murder weapon in Julia's remote country house, which has no place in the English countryside.