Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
★ 6.4 · 2004 · 99m · Mystery · Crime · TV Movie
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
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