The title of this episode has to grab at your heart. Brett carried on even though he was carrying a death sentence. This is a really neat episode as Holmes gets Watson to bring to him the foremost authority on a rare disease he has contracted. Watson has the unenviable task of talking a man who hates Holmes into helping his detective friend. Holmes sleeps in an anteroom and refuses to let Mrs. Hudson or Watson give him any assistance. We know that Holmes isn't going to die, so what is he up to? The real joy has to do with the final confrontation that occurs. Brett really looks sick. It continues to show the affection that Holmes" biographer has toward his eccentric compadre. This is a later episode and it does justice to the Granada series.
Review of The Dying Detective
