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This excerpt is from the unpublished book The Sherlock Log, about Marowitz’s experiences bringing his play Sherlock’s Last Case, to Broadway. Marowitz wrote the play under a pseudonym in England and directed three separate versions of it before it was optioned for a Broadway production by Frank Langella, who also played the title role, under the direction of A. J. Antoon. Picking up where the Conan Doyle stories end, the play centres on a supposed plot against Sherlock Holmes by the son of his late nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Holmes finds himself imprisoned, trapped not by young Moriarty but, to his shocked amazement by Dr Watson. It turns out Watson has long been bitterly resentful of his sidekick status and Holmes’ pomposity. After Holmes' death Watson comes into his own, or seems to, until several impostors turn up claiming to be the real Sherlock Holmes.