HANSOM WHEELS

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Page Five

The Play:

 

THE  Crooked_3.gif  MAN

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Nancy Barclay (Myrtle Robinson) and her friend

Mabel (Ceille Welch) walk down a dark,

dismal street in Aldershot, where…

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… they are confronted by a bizarre stranger (David Cranford) who addresses Nancy by name.

 

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Sherlock Holmes (Phil Dematteis) pays a late night visit to Dr Watson (Bernard Manning), requesting his assistance in

probing the death of Colonel James Barclay.

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Holmes and Watson visit the room in which Col. Barclay died. The coachman, Steven (Charlie Cook), and the maid, Jane (Alida Rawl), describe the events on the fatal night. Holmes deduces that a strange animal recently has run up a curtain in hopes of devouring a caged bird.