They are not disappointed. With Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Eric Sykes, Colin Jeavons. [14], Michael Hardwick adapted the story for the BBC Light Programme. Beppo shows up, enters the house, and comes back out of the window minutes later with a Napoleon bust, which he proceeds to shatter. Holmes knows that Lestrade’s theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. [15], An adaptation of the story aired on BBC radio in 1978, starring Barry Foster as Holmes and David Buck as Watson. The adaptation, which starred Carleton Hobbs as Holmes and Norman Shelley as Watson, aired in 1966. This version is faithful to the original story—although there is a twist. Directed by David Carson. [12] Another episode in the same series adapted from the story aired on 7 March 1948, with John Stanley playing Holmes and Alfred Shirley playing Watson. He found out from his cousin who bought the busts, and through his own efforts and confederates’, even found out who the end buyers were. The next day, Lestrade calls Holmes to a house where there has been yet another bust-shattering, but there has also been a murder. Come along then. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon.One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled.Nothing else was taken. Inspector Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon. Holmes tells Lestrade to tell Harker, a journalist for the Central Press Syndicate, that he is convinced that the culprit is a lunatic. Mr. Horace Harker found the dead man on his doorstep after investigating a noise. "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The busts in question all came from the same mould. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" is the thirty-second short story and the thirty-fifth tale of the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Check it out this mystery! Holmes begs the manager not to talk to the cousin about Beppo. After sending an express message, Holmes invites Dr. Watson and Lestrade to join him outside a house in Chiswick where apparently Holmes is expecting another bust-breaking. He then proceeded to seek the busts out, smashing them one by one to find the pearl.