Ep.80 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Amateur Mendicant Society

Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe.From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes with his friend Nigel Bruce on cinema and radio.The Amateur Mendicant Society: Holmes and Watson investigate a society of beggars and spies.  Originally aired April 2nd,1945.Support the show