The pearl of deathon a channel ferry crossing the famous borgia pearl is stolen from a courier, the thief enlists an elderly clergyman's innocent aid in smuggling the jewel through customs. Naturally the white haired prelate is a disguised holmes who sees that the pearl is returned to it's proper destination the royal regent museum from where it is stolen again by the arch criminal giles conover. Holmes must retrieve the pearl and battle against conover's associate the creeper! A monster whom breaks conover's enemies back like twigs upon his command.the woman in greenholmes and watson must solve the greatest crime wave since jack the ripper. The woman in green marks the last screen appearance of the character of professor moriarty in the basil rathbone series. Henry daniell plays moriarty and creates the greatest screen representation of the legendary evil genius . A series of strange murders baffle the police. Holmes is called onto the case discovering the existence of a blackmail ring that uses a lady hypnotist to further their skulduggery!special featuresnone listed