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Dressed to Kill (1946)
Sherlock Holmes can be said to be the first private investigator that the world came to know about. As we read more about him in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's compositions, we discover that he has indeed a dark shady past behind him. This small juicy bits about him and how he deduces the theories to solve his cases cannot be enjoyed merely by seeing some characters acting out what he or the directors thinks happened in the Victorian times and the foggy streets of London and Baker's Street.
Clueless on what to expect to see, our imagination is an excellent composer of our own mythical and mystical platform on how we wish our elitist hero to be portrayed. In this way, our imagination is rekindled again and again to became imaginative and innovative. The idiot box dulls our brain to be a recipient of information which does not leave much to imagination. This is what went through my mind as I watched this old 1946 depiction of our pipe chomping mentalist.
Three identical music boxes are sold off in an auction in London. After the auction is complete, a gentleman barges into the auction office to obtain the whereabouts of the buyers of the music boxes.

Holmes & Dr Watson

Next scene, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson usher in a rather distraught client, Stinky, who is an acquaintance of Watson. He had been hit by a common thief who scooted off with a cheap music box that he had bought at the auction. Even though there were other pricier music boxes in his personal collection, the thief specifically went for the cheap one.
Holmes with a lot of accidental help from Watson, he cracks the case, as usual. It turns out that the three musical boxes were made by inmates of a prison. The prisoner who was instrumental in the box was a convict who went in for stealing a printing mold of Bank of England's pound note. He had hidden his loot before apprehension and had kept mum about it. The musical notes of the music from the box, when written as the number of key on a piano which correspond to the alphabet and read out a message which would reveal the hiding place of the mold.
The crooks after the box managed to lay their hands on two of the boxes, after a series of mischief, murder and a lovely femme fatale Mrs Courtney to spin the guys around.

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