October 2014 selection Classic Book Club
Finished Mo 10/20/14
Wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet
I was kind of expecting more, and on the Monday morning before the meeting I watched on You Tube the BBC production from 1968 starring Peter Cushing. This was a 'theater production', and the second section of the novel that takes place in Utah was not included, but alluded to. (45"- probably an hour on British television including commercials)
They also added some material about the 'old woman' who answers Holmes's ad in the newspaper about the ring that was found with the first body. He and Watson track this actor down to his playhouse and he's a popular 'drag artist', and had no connection to the crime, but the murderer had paid for his services. This isn't in the novel, and strange that this is the area that they chose to expand upon.
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