George Ridgwell directed a number of adaptations of stores about which fictional private detective?
George Ridgwell George Ridgwell (1867–1935) was a British screenwriter and film director of the silent film era. His name was sometimes spelt as George Ridgewell. He was born in Woolwich in 1867. He directed around 70 films including a series of adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories featuring Eille Norwood as Holmes. His last film was "Lily of Killarney" in 1929. He died in Hampstead in 1935. He was the father of the actress Audrey Ridgewell.
The Club-Footed Grocer "The Clubfooted Grocer" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in "The Strand Magazine". It is a nineteenth-century short story about a man who goes to help his wealthy uncle, once a grocer and trader of jewelry and expensive artifacts. The narrator doesn’t know why he is called to help his uncle until he arrives and finds that his uncle has a death threat from someone who wants something the uncle possesses.