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The Crucifer of Blood

by Paul Giovanniliterary work

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The Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Sign of the Four. It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the travails that her father and his three compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Adaptations (1)

The Crucifer of Blood was adapted into a 1991 film.

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    The Crucifer of Blood
    1991 · film · 103 min · dir. Fraser C. Heston · IMDb ↗
    IMDb5.6

    A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.

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