<P> The story was much extrapolated when adapted by screenwriter Jeremy Paul for Granada Television series Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett . It became the 1992 feature - length episode The Master Blackmailer and featured Robert Hardy as the eponymous reptilian Milverton . Holmes's relationship with the maid is expanded upon, allowing Brett to suggest Holmes' buried tenderness and inability / unwillingness to indulge in matters of the heart . The violence of the villain's end, including the grisly grinding of the avenger's heel into the dead Milverton's bespectacled face, is faithfully adapted, but Holmes and Watson do not at the end gaze upon Milverton's killer's portrait, as the murderess is identified . Deviating from the original story, Holmes holds a very different opinion about the case's end . He requests Watson not to chronicle the case, deeming it to have unpleasant circumstances, whereas in the original story he's slightly more cheerful, as shown by his joking to Lestrade . </P> <P> The 1945 film The Woman in Green with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce is a loose adaptation of this story . Milverton is replaced by Moriarty . </P> <P> The "Dead Man's Switch" episode of the CBS crime drama Elementary loosely adapts the story, with Milverton as a professional blackmailer who contacts his "clients" and prevents his own exposure by informing them that he has an accomplice who will distribute the damaging material if Milverton is arrested . Milverton is brought to Holmes's attention when he blackmails the family of a rape victim, the family being known to Holmes's addiction sponsor . The case is complicated when Holmes witnesses Milverton's murder while infiltrating his house . Holmes is compelled to locate Milverton's accomplice, who has access to all of Milverton's material and instructions to post it on the Internet if Milverton is caught or killed . </P> <P> The third season of the BBC adaptation Sherlock features' Charles Augustus Magnussen', portrayed by Lars Mikkelsen, as a primary antagonist . The episode "His Last Vow" aired 12 January 2014 . In it, it is revealed that Charles Magnussen keeps the information with which he blackmails his victims in his own mind palace (inside his head), only occasionally acquiring hard copies when he has to . Despite Mycroft warning Sherlock to leave Magnussen alone as he is occasionally useful to the government, he is shot dead by Sherlock in order to free John from his power and guarantee Mary's safety, as Sherlock realizes by using his mind palace he has no actual evidence in the event of his death . </P>

Sir arthur conan doyle's short story the adventure of charles augustus milverton