This was one of my favourite stories as the facts were as baffling as the solution was ingenious. However, the TV episode ruined the mystery by putting so much of the background story at the beginning of the episode. We learned that a statue factory was involved and saw the unpainted Napoleons. We also saw Beppo hiding from the police in the drying room with the Napoleons. It didn't take much to figure out that Beppo was breaking the Napoleons and was looking for something. The intro deprived the audience of what were otherwise bizarre elements to the story. It became easy to figure out what would otherwise have been the sort of outré facts that we love about Sherlock Holmes stories.
Review of The Six Napoleons
