the bearded stranger, had unwisely told Staunton, who felt compelled to rush off forthwith. Publication history "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in August 1904, and in the US in Collier's on 26 November 1904. The story was published with seven illustrations by Sidney Paget in the Strand, and with seven illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele in Collier's. It was included in the short story collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in the US in February 1905 and in the UK in March 1905. Adaptations Film A short silent film adapted from the story was released in 1923 as part of the Stoll film series starring Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr Watson. Radio A radio adaptation aired as an episode of the American radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The episode was adapted by Edith Meiser and aired on 8 June 1931, with Richard Gordon as Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell as Dr. Watson. Another production in the same series based on the story was broadcast in 1932. Meiser also adapted the story as an episode of the American radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson, that aired on 29 December 1940. "The Missing Three-Quarter" was adapted by Felix Felton as a 1955 radio production for the BBC Home Service, as part of the 1952–1969 radio series starring Carleton Hobbs as Holmes and Norman Shelley as Watson, with Felton as Lord Mount-James and Ronald Simpson as Dr Leslie Armstrong. Hobbs and Shelley also played Holmes and Watson respectively in an adaptation of the story that aired on the BBC Light Programme in 1962, which was adapted by Michael Hardwick. In 1993 it was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 by Roger Danes as part of the 1989–1998 radio series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, featuring Peter Jeffrey as Dr Armstrong and Peter Howell as Lord Mount-James. The story was adapted as a 2013 episode of The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre, starring John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Watson. References Notes Sources External links Missing Three-Quarter, The Adventure of the 1904 short stories Fiction set in 1896 Works originally published in The Strand Magazine Rugby