Review – Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

And the audience faces boredom. It’s a relief to see Holmes solving a creaky old English crime (though still in the 1940s) rather than directly aiding the war effort. The location – a manor house being used as a convalescent home for shell-shocked officers – presents the opportunity for some added weirdness. But for the most part the production is a generic Holmes story, not noteworthy in either a good or a bad way. Mildly amusing