The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
by Arthur Conan Doyleliterary work· published 1908
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"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow (1917), and is the second and final main appearance of Mycroft Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and in Collier's in the United States in 1908. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
Adaptations (3)
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans has been adapted 3 times, across miniseries and television film, from 1987 to 2010. The most recent is The Great Game (2010).
The Twentieth Century Approaches1987 · miniseries · 85 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.9This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the story Bruce-Partington Drawings was deleted.
The Royal Scandal2001 · television film · 120 min · dir. Rodney Gibbons · IMDb ↗IMDb6.0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse
The Great Game2010 · television film · 89 min · dir. Paul McGuigan · IMDb ↗IMDb9.0Mycroft needs Sherlock's help, but a remorseless criminal mastermind puts Sherlock on a distracting crime-solving spree via a series of hostage human bombs through which he speaks.
