Visionary Picks Drawn from the Same DNA as The Water Lily: Cult Guide

Dir: George Ridgwell

Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.

Dir: George Ridgwell

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Golden Pince-Nez perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor--it was she."

Dir: George Ridgwell

Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

Dir: George Ridgwell

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Bruce Partington Plans perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A London lady comes to Holmes in curiosity about her newest lodger. After first renting the room, arranging for meals and newspaper to be left at the door, and paying a very high fee, he disappears completely. Or, is it someone else now inside the room?

Dir: George Ridgwell

Count Giuseppe Rizzo, pressed by his creditors, marries June Baxter, heiress to a large fortune, for her money. As the wedding party emerges from the church, Phillipa Garrie, once mistress to the Count, but now cast aside, attempts to stab him. Humiliated, and realizing a. side of the Count's nature unknown to her, June secludes herself in her home and orders him out of her sight. To avoid notoriety, she leaves town to take up her home near the site of the plant left her by her father. Together, with Clay Foster, superintendent of the plant, she devotes her time to the welfare of her workmen. By threats of creating public scandal, the Count blackmails June, compelling the payments of large sums of money. As their work at the plant draws them closer together, the seeds of love take root within the breast of Clay Foster and with them a deep hatred for the Count, who refuses to give June a divorce. After a while, however, hard pressed by his creditors, and a heavy loser at gambling, the Count agrees to grant her a divorce if June will make a settlement upon him. June, determined, leaves for New York, and registers at the Count's hotel. Unbeknown to June, Clay Foster follows her to protect her from harm. The Count's demands upon June are staggering and she refuses to comply with them. The Count is enraged and June saves herself only by her presence of mind. Clay Foster enters the scene, and threatens to kill the Count if he does June any bodily harm. Adventure and complication follow each other in quick succession. Thirteen, the number on the door of .the Count's room in the hotel, has begun to cast its spell about. That night, the Count is murdered. Suspicion falls upon Clay, and he is arrested for the murder. Yet, as the numerous complications begin to untangle themselves, we find that the Count was killed, not by June, because of her fear of him alive; not by Clay, because of his hatred for him; not by Phillipa, because he had blighted her life; nor by Antonio, her father, who had sworn to take vengeance, but by one with no personal ties, urged on merely by the sight of the Count's winnings that night, and cursed by the awful spell, unable to escape the talons of number thirteen.

Dir: George Ridgwell

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Red Circle perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A country girl runs away to town, and achieves success as an actress. A struggling actor desiring a part in her company visits her home town, absorbs local color, and on his return brings a faded rose from the girl's mother, and poses as one of her country neighbors with such success that the girl cancels all engagements and returns home. Then the actor decides to follow her.

Dir: George Ridgwell

The hero rides into a western town in the garb and appearance of a hobo. The sight of the young school teacher, a newcomer, brings on a speedy change to fancy duds, and he at once begins wooing her.

Dir: George Ridgwell

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Mystery of Room 13 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.

Dir: George Ridgwell

Young Buffalo sets out on the trail of a criminal sheriff who works recklessly and commits murders and holdups with considerable regularity and no evident fear.

Dir: George Ridgwell

An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.