The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part VI by David Marcum

Author:David Marcum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sherlock, holmes, mystery, crime, british, short fiction
ISBN: 9781787050884
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2017-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

The Adventure of the Apothecary Shop

by Jim French

This script has never been published in text form, and was initially performed as a radio drama on November 30, 2008. The broadcast was Episode No. 87 of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, one of the recurring series featured on the nationally syndicated Imagination Theatre. Founded by Jim French, the company produced nearly 1,100 multi-series episodes, including 128 Sherlock Holmes pastiches. In addition, Imagination Theatre also recorded the entire Holmes Canon, featured as The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. This is the only version with all episodes to have been written and adapted by the same writer, Matthew J. Elliott, and with the same two actors, John Patrick Lowrie and Lawrence Albert, portraying Holmes and Watson, respectively.

On February 1st, 2017, it was announced to great surprise and dismay that Imagination Theatre was closing its doors. Thankfully, their work will live on, and their support for Sherlock Holmes will always be appreciated and never forgotten.

This script is protected by copyright. For permission to reproduce it in any way or to perform it in any medium, please apply to the author.

THE CAST

SHERLOCK HOLMES - John Patrick Lowrie

DR. JOHN H. WATSON - Lawrence Albert

INSPECTOR LESTRADE – Rick May

CONSTANCE BOWERS - Rachel Glass: About forty, loud, non-Posh, unhappily married

MRS. BOWERS - Rachel Glass: In her sixties; a harsh old harpie

CONSTABLE - Dennis Bateman: Fifty-ish Liverpudlian; a veteran policeman

TELEGRAPH CLERK - Dennis Bateman: Mid-twenties; upper class accent

MUSIC - OPENING, DANSE MACABRE AND UNDER

WATSON: (NARRATING) My name is Doctor John H. Watson. During the years of my association with Sherlock Holmes, I knew him to experience extremes of mood, varying from gloom to exultation, always depending on the state of the case he was handling at the time. But rarely did these extremes occur all within an hour, as they did on one rainy morning that began with Holmes enjoying the solution of an investigation, but ending with his fame, his reputation, and his very life in jeopardy. It began in mid-morning. Holmes had been on an errand for an hour or so (BEGIN FADE) when he returned in high spirits...

MUSIC - OUT

SOUND EFFECT - BAKER STREET BACKGROUND. DOOR SLAM

HOLMES: Ha! So much for Oliver Stutzman’s pretensions!

WATSON: What?

HOLMES: I have just received a wire confirming that the crown claimed by that rascal Stutzman no longer exists! He has no more claim on the rights to the Dalmatian monarchy than you or I! He is neither Italian nor Croatian, but was born in - of all places - New York City, and his father was a policeman! This telegram confirms I was right all along.

WATSON: You seem very pleased with yourself.

HOLMES: Pleased? My investigation has saved an English widow from embarrassment and ruin, and placed a blackguard in the arms of the law!

WATSON: I don’t believe I knew about that investigation.

HOLMES: It was just a matter of sending a few telegrams to the right people. I proved that Emil Stutzman’s impersonation of an exiled monarch was nothing more than a sham, and shop-worn at that. I

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