William Gillette

A Romance of the Southern Confederacy

An American Drama Arranged in Four Acts and Entitled Secret Service

A Collection of Three Plays

Arthur Conan Doyle

The classic Victorian melodrama. All the intrigue and suspense of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective stories comes to life in this classic theatrical adaptation. Originally produced on Broadway in 1899, Sherlock Holmes battles his archenemy Moriarty while he tries to defeat a notorious blackmail plot. Hailed by the press at the time as "thrilling," the play was an enormous success here and abroad. Playwright William Gillette is credited with giving Holmes his trademark curved pipe and his deerstalker cap as well as inventing the line "Elementary, my dear Watson.

A Play in Four Acts

Sherlock Holmes

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Secret Service; Being the Happenings of a Night in Richmond in the Spring of 1865

A Comedy in Four Acts

All the Comforts of Home

Case involving incriminating letters written by European prince to the English girl he betrayed leads to Holmes-Moriarty confrontation.

A Comedy in Two Acts

Cyrus Brady

"Secret Service" by Cyrus Townsend Brady, William Gillette. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Secret Service

William H. Gillette

The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899).

All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes

Plays by William Hooker Gillette

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Theatrical Sherlock Holmes

William Gillette

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