A Sherlock Holmes episode ‘The last vampire’ ran last night on UK TV (apologies for being parochial).
It had decent actors and a budget for scenery and set dressing.
However the plot was most unlike a regular Holmes work. Far too many scenes were just of people wandering about to scary music, with little investigative work being done by the great man.
Finally there was a rushed climax in which somebody had been using curare-tipped prongs to simulate vampire bites causing paralysis, and the likely ‘undead’ suspect turned out to be just dead.
I had watched the whole thing (in mounting disappointment), but got a phone call and missed the explanation.
Please could anyone who did watch it explain the plot - or is there a Conan Doyle short story which this was based on?
I assume it’s an adaptation of the Conan Doyle story “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”; but it’s been a couple decades since I read the story, and can’t remember the details. (Except that, of course, there was no actual vampire. As Holmes said, “No ghosts need apply.” And there was a young woman who was found apparently sucking blood from her infant’s neck, but it turned out she was innocent and had a good reason.)
