Bloody Broadway - Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery - Volume 1 1900-1930

The entity known as Broadway began with several stage contributions by the American playwright-actor-director William Gillette. Gillette's major success was Sherlock Holmes, a compilation of half-a-dozen short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle into a cohesive plot line. It played at Manhattan's Garrick Theatre, garnered positive reviews, and ran for 256 performances. During the decade of 1900-1910, a number of prolific melodramatists whipped up various four-act plays featuring plays of crime an...