A Kirkbymoorside-based professional actor is about to embark on an 18-date tour of a show, which will look into an unsolved Sherlock Holmes case.

Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour, features Julian Finnegan as Holmes and Dominic Goodwin, who lives in Kirkbymoorside, as Watson.

The show will also start its tour in Kirkbymoorside next Friday.

Dominic said: "It's a mad bonkers comedy which has toured from 2009 to 2017. But Wetherby Festival asked me, earlier in the year to bring it back as the need to have a dam good laugh has never been greater.

" It's been touch and go as to whether the tour would go ahead but I'm very pleased to say it is and interest is high."

For the first time ever,the new show, put together by Stuart Fortey and Pyramus and Thisbe Productions, will re-enact one of the detective unrecorded cases.

Before slipping into well-earned retirement, Sherlock Holmes has prevailed upon his long-time companion Dr Watson, his landlady Mrs Hudson and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to join him in a farewell tour of the British Isles. For the first time ever they will re-enact one of the detective’s most baffling unrecorded cases – The Case of the Prime Minister, the Floozie and the Lummock Rock Lighthouse – an affair upon whose outcome the security of Europe once hung by a thread. Shrouded in secrecy until now, this case has finally been approved by the government for public disclosure.

It is also understood that Mr Holmes has been entrusted by Her Majesty with the conveyance to the Tower of London of the fabled Satsuma Stone, stolen from the crown of William of Orange in the seventeenth century and only recently discovered in a midden in Maastricht.

It is expected that the evening will include a glimpse of this priceless gem; in which case, one can only be thankful that Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, fell to his death at the Reichenbach Falls. Or did he? Or is he still alive, planning another deadly strike as he lurks, unseen, in the wings...?

The opening night is Friday 3 September doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm in the Methodist Chapel in Piercy End.

Tickets are £10 each, on sale in town from Moorside Stores, Children in Distress or from the history group : 07885917619, email kmshistory@btinternet.com.

The show will then visit:

Saturday 4 September: Wrelton Village Hall

Friday 17 September: Helmsley Arts Centre

Saturday 18 September: Terrington Village Hall

Sunday 19 September: Alne Village Hall, near Easingwold

For a full list of dates: www.pyramusandthisbeproductions.com