The Case Of The Neurotic Detective is a Sherlock Holmes television movie from 1955.
It stars Ronald Howard as Holmes, H. Marion Crawford as Dr. Watson and Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade.
A crime wave is sweeping London and the police are baffled.
Holmes refuses to help Lestrade and when Watson finds jewellery in Holmes’ tobacco box, he begins to suspect him.
The police get involved but in the end they discover Holmes has been working for Scotland Yard.
He was the ‘thief’ but it was all part of a plan to test the police’s ability to deal with crime.
Movie pages here.
As Dick Walker said back in the day….
“90% of fish in any given water are within 10 yards of the bank”…..
I’ve never heard that before, Steve, but absolutely.