"Sherlock Holmes: The Star of the Adelphi" (BBC Radio 4 production)

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The Star of the Adelphi
First transmitted 6 February 2002, this story is based on a reference from Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Second Stain": "You must have observed, Watson, how she manoeuvred to have the light at her back. She did not wish us to read her expression...You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose—that proved to be the correct solution."

When a leading actor is stabbed to death, Holmes and Watson step behind the scenes into a world of pretence and deception.

This story is based on the actual murder of actor-manager William Terriss by Richard Prince outside London's Adelphi Theatre on 16 December 1897.