"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in February 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 11 February 1893.

Publication history

"The Adventure of the Yellow Face" was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in February 1893, and in the US in Harper's Weekly on 11 February 1893. It was also published in the US edition of The Strand Magazine in March 1893. The story was published with seven illustrations by Sidney Paget in the Strand, and with two illustrations by W. H. Hyde in Harper's Weekly. It was included in the short story collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,

Adaptations

Film and television

The story was adapted as a short film released in 1921 as part of the Stoll film series, featuring Eille Norwood as Holmes.

The story is also alluded to in the BBC television series Sherlock where a yellow smiley face is painted on the wall of Sherlock's flat. Additionally, quotes from the story are used as plot points in "The Lying Detective". In addition, the town of Norbury from the story is represented in the episode "The Six Thatchers" in the form of Vivian Norbury, the main adversary of the episode.

Radio and audio dramas

Edith Meiser adapted the story as an episode of the American radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that was broadcast on 14 January 1932, with Richard Gordon as Holmes and Leigh Lovell as Watson.

"The Yellow Face" was dramatised by Gerry Jones for BBC Radio 4 in 1992 as an episode of the 1989–1998 radio series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. It featured Helena Breck as Effie Munro.

The story was adapted for radio in 2005 as part of The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre, with John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Watson. It was the first episode in the series.

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