Media
This story was heavily rewritten for Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series. It was merged with another story, "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs". The most noticeable change being that Holmes does not feature except in the prologue and final scene (actor Jeremy Brett was away due to illness). It is Mycroft Holmes (Charles Gray) who takes up the case of the stolen diamond, while Watson is retained to look into the Garrideb mystery.
This is one of four stories claimed to be forged "drivel" by author Nicholas Meyer, in the 1974 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. (The other three are also from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'.)
The 1946 film Terror by Night takes some motives of "The Mazarin Stone" too.
Read more about this topic: The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone
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