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Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case of Lady Sannox (also published as "The Kiss of Blood") is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Idler in November 1893.

Plot

The story features an arrogant surgeon, Douglas Stone, who is in love with the married Lady Sannox, one of the most beautiful women in London. On his way to a rendezvous with her, the surgeon is asked by a Turkish man to operate on the latter's wife, who has cut her lip with a poisoned scimitar. The doctor is informed the woman will die if the poison is not cut out.

Because of his desire to meet his lover, his need for money, his professional arrogance, and the opinion of the Turk that any delay would kill his wife, the surgeon goes ahead with the operation on the heavily drugged wife, whose face is obscured by a veil. After he has performed the operation, Dr. Stone realizes his patient is Lady Sannox, and the Turk her husband, who believes the disfigurement will be morally good for his wife. The surgeon suffers a breakdown.

Adaptations

"The Case of Lady Sannox" was adapted for television in 1949 as an episode of the American television anthology series Suspense. The episode is one of the surviving episodes of the series. The cast included Stella Adler as Lady Sannox, Henry Brandon as Dr. Douglas Stone, and Berry Kroeger as Lord Sannox.

The story was incorporated into an episode of the Sherlock Holmes radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, on the radio program Imagination Theatre. The episode, titled "The Lady Sannox Investigation", was first broadcast on 28 September 2008. In the episode, which is set after the events of the original short story, Holmes investigates the cause of Dr. Stone's mental breakdown. Lord Sannox was played by Stephan Weyte.

References

"CTVA US Anthology - "Suspense" (CBS) Season 2". Classic TV Archive. May 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
Wright, Stewart (30 April 2019). "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Broadcast Log" (PDF). Old-Time Radio. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
"The Lady Sannox Investigation". Imagination Theatre. 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

External links

"The Case of Lady Sannox", text of the original story

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Professor Challenger	The Lost World (1912) The Poison Belt (1913) The Land of Mist (1926) "When the World Screamed" (1928) "The Disintegration Machine" (1929)
Other novels	The Narrative of John Smith (1883) The Mystery of Cloomber (1889) Micah Clarke (1889) The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) The White Company (1891) The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892) Beyond the City (1892) The Great Shadow (1892) The Refugees (1893) The Parasite (1894) The Stark Munro Letters (1895) The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) Rodney Stone (1896) The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899) Adventures of Gerard (1903) Sir Nigel (1906) The Maracot Deep (1929)
Short stories	"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884) "Lot No. 249" (1892) "The Case of Lady Sannox" (1893) "The Club-Footed Grocer" (1898) "The Brown Hand" (1899) "The Terror of Blue John Gap" (1910) "The Horror of the Heights" (1913) Danger! and Other Stories (1918)
Other	"The Inner Room" (1898) "The Crime of the Congo" (1909) The Vital Message (1919)
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