Stoll Picture Productions

A film directed by Sinclair Hill.

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.

In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband.

Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.

Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure

In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.

Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.

An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.

An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.

A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society. The golfer resolves to become an intellectual and, following a lecture by 'a highbrow Russian and typical whiskered Bolshevik' who happens to also be a brother golfer, the object of the golfer's affection realises that there may be something more to the game after all.

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.

A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.

A disguised servant of a dying Japanese prince saves articles of succession from a rival faction.

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.

A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.