Prominently featuring Doyle's riddle idea from The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual, this film brings Holmes and Watson back to a more proper setting. Throughout the film we only get hints of a global struggle and although the film still portrays a modernized Holmes it is less obvious. Here we find Holmes and Watson in a more canon-like environment, investigating murder at a large country manor!

We still hear Rathbone state patriotically how the world is slowly changing for the better, but gone are the Nazis and Holmes' curious hair style as well!

This film, under the title of Sherlock Holmes Hunts the Soho Devil, along with the film, Sherlock Holmes and the Pearl of Death, was later released in Germany.