The Mystery of the Octagonal Room (1914)
Cleek and Narkom were spending a pleasant vacation on a houseboat in the Thames, when they were called to solve a curious case in the home of Squire Shadbolt. Dollops, Cleek's assistant, ashore one day to buy supplies for the houseboat, heard that Mrs. Shadbolt had mysteriously disappeared. He at once told Cleek, and Cleek and Narkom set out for the Shadbolt home to investigate. When they arrived there, Cleek discovered the body of Maurice Ward, a solicitor and personal friend of Mrs. Shadbolt, behind one of the panels in the Octagonal Room in the Shadbolt Mansion. It was hard to tell how Shadbolt had met his death, but Cleek discovered some infinitesimal pricks in the skin of one of his hands. When, shortly afterward, he discovered Mrs. Shadbolt insensible beneath a bank of flowers in the chapel he was able to solve the mystery. Sartoli, the Shadbolts' Japanese butler, was the agent of a band of criminals engaged in stealing valuable articles from the homes of wealthy people, and substituting imitations in their place. Mrs. Shadbolt discovered his scheme, and called in Maurice Ward. The butler murdered Ward by means of a bunch of roses with poisoned thorns, and attempted to remove Mrs. Shadbolt by poisoning the bill of her pet parrot. Luckily, Mrs. Shedbolt recovered, and by means of her evidence, Cleek was able to lay his hands on the whole gang.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George Lessey | Director |
| Thomas W. Hanshew | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ben F. Wilson | |
| Gertrude McCoy | |
| Robert Brower | |
| Harry Beaumont |
