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By Tim Kelly

Freely adapted from the classic stage comedy by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette

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Sherlock Holmes

SHERLOCK HOLMES

By TIM KELLY

CAST OF CHARACTERS

NEWSBOY ONE ........................ a hard-working lad 16 # of lines

NEWSBOY TWO ....................... another 13 FORMAN .................................... an unusual butler 19 MADGE LARRABEE .................. up to no good 71 JAMES LARRABEE ................... can’t be trusted 77 TERESA ..................................... a maid who keeps her ears 22

open SID PRINCE ............................... a natty safecracker 41 SHERLOCK HOLMES ............... ‘nuff said 183 ALICE FAULKNER..................... a damsel in distress 69 MRS. BASSICK .......................... gives women’s rights a bad 37

name GINGER ..................................... the less said the better 17 PEPPER ..................................... no friend to law and order 11 FLOWER WOMAN ..................... a not-so-pretty thief 16 ELEGANT LADY ........................ the rich must pay 2 GENTLEMAN ............................. no friend of suffragettes 4 DETECTIVE ............................... curse of the criminal class 6

(Can also play Inspector Lestrade.) PROFESSOR MORIARTY ........ the Napoleon of Crime. Beware! 72 JOAN .......................................... his secretary. No scruples 14 MATCHGIRL .............................. she’ll burn London down 2 DR. WATSON ............................ Holmes’ colleague, good sort 76 MRS. HUDSON .......................... steak-and-kidney pie her 15

specialty LADY EDWINA .......................... snobbery in Baker Street 25 PRINCE CARL ........................... needs help 15 LESTRADE ................................ a police bade in Watson’s side 7 GERTIE ...................................... a real gasser 10 SINGER ..................................... London’s own n/a MAGGIE BASKERVILLE ........... Sherlock her last hope 7 CABBIE ...................................... 4 LONDONERS ............................ no place like Holmes (can be added

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