arrives, catching Holmes and Watson in the act. After Holmes makes it plain that he has deduced most of the odd goings-on, Sir Robert invites him and Watson back to the house and explains everything. About a week earlier, Lady Beatrice died of dropsy, and Sir Robert felt compelled to keep the fact secret so that the creditors would not swoop down on Shoscombe before he had a chance to win the Derby and pay off all his debts. He and the maid's husband hid the body in the crypt, but also found that they had to dispose of an older body—in the furnace. This same man also dressed up in Lady Beatrice's clothes and took her place in the carriage each day. The dog knew what had happened and might have given the game away if its noise had aroused suspicion. Holmes refers the matter to the police, but the story ends happily. Shoscombe Prince wins the Derby, Sir Robert escapes any major judicial penalty for what he did to his sister's body, and he pays off all his debts with a great deal left over. Publication history "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" was published in the US in Liberty in March 1927, and in the UK in The Strand Magazine in April 1927. The story was published with seven illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele in Liberty, and with five illustrations by Frank Wiles in the Strand. It was included in the short story collection The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in the UK and the US in June 1927. Adaptations Radio and audio dramas The story was dramatised by Edith Meiser in 1931 as part of the American radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It aired on 30 March 1931 with Richard Gordon as Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell as Dr. Watson. Other dramatisations of the story, also adapted by Meiser, aired on the American radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 9 March 1941 (with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson) and 15 February 1948 (with John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson). A radio adaptation of the story aired in 1959 on the BBC Light Programme, as part of the 1952–1969 radio series starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr. Watson. It was adapted by Michael Hardwick, and featured Frederick Treves