AFTER the mysterious disappearance of a world-famous magician disappears, the great Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate in Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of The Masked Magician comes to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Saturday 7th March at 11am and 2.30pm and Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday 15th March at 2.30.

1t’s 1906 – the Golden Age of Magic. The Masked Magician bestrides London’s world of magic like a colossus until … one night, in mid-performance, the magician vanishes. Is he dead? Has he been kidnapped? Or is he in hiding?

After a month Scotland Yard is completely baffled (obviously) and Sherlock Holmes is called in to help solve the mystery. Holmes (with an excitable Watson in tow) plunges into the secret world of Edwardian magic only to find that the Masked Magician’s identity is magic’s best kept secret.

As they meet and question the magician‘s peers (seeing a lot of magic), the mystery of his identity and fate deepen. As they unravel clue after clue, Holmes comes to share Watson’s wonder and discovers that it can sit alongside his logical outlook.

When Holmes finally uncovers the startling and surprising secrets of the Masked Magician he, Watson and the audience have to decide …

Bristol-based actor Peter Clifford plays Holmes and the Great Baldini is Watson (and – perhaps – the missing magician!)