The Mysteries of the real Sherlock Holmes, Ian Richardson stars in this thrilling DVD as the enigmatic Joseph Bell, to Whom Arthur Conan Doyle allegedly wrote ‘it is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes’. This feature length prime time programme was broadcast on BBC1 to wide critical acclaim. It is 1882 and London is in the grip of spiritualists and séances. Arthur Conan Doyle joins Joseph Bell in a labyrinthine task of investigating a number of corpses found in the River Thames.