This series brings to life the many detectives of late Victorian London who were "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," from R. Austin Freeman’s brilliant forensic expert Dr. John Thorndyke to Arthur Morrison’s notorious villain, private inquiry agent Horace Dorrington, William Hope Hodgson’s world-famous ghost hunter Carnacki and Baroness Orczy’s detective Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
The Superfluous Finger
Season 2 Episode 7 | 50m 31s | CC
When a beautiful young woman asks a London surgeon to cut off one of her perfectly healthy fingers, there must surely be an intriguing reason for this. Jacques Futrelle’s Prof. van Dusen is called upon to “think” his way to a solution.
