The Pearl Of Death (1944) [2026]

Pursued by police, Conover hides the pearl inside one of six wet plaster busts of Napoleon in a pottery shop.

While demonstrating the flaws of a museum's security system to prove a point, Holmes inadvertently allows master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander) to steal the pearl. The Pearl of Death (1944)

After the busts are sold to various customers, a series of brutal murders begins. Victims are found with their spines snapped, surrounded by smashed china—the trademark of Conover’s henchman, a disfigured killer known as The Hoxton Creeper . Pursued by police, Conover hides the pearl inside