Character Relationship Map: Shivering Sherlocks

Characters

• Shemp (played by Shemp Howard) — protagonist

  Shemp is one of the Stooges, initially cleared of suspicion in the armored-car robbery and placed under protective custody with his companions. He helps Gladys at the café and joins the search for her...

• Red Watkins (played by Frank Lackteen) — supporting

  Red Watkins is one of the actual criminals involved in the armored-car robbery and uses Gladys's newly inherited mansion as a hideout with the other criminals. He is caught after the Stooges discover...

• Gladys Harmon (played by Christine McIntyre) — supporting

  Gladys Harmon owns the Elite Café and provides the Stooges with an alibi, after which they are placed in her care. When she learns of her inheritance, she takes them to inspect her new mansion, unawar...

• Lefty Loomis (played by Kenneth MacDonald) — supporting

  Lefty Loomis is one of the actual criminals involved in the armored-car robbery and uses Gladys's newly inherited mansion as a hideout with the other criminals. He is caught after the Stooges search t...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Red Watkins → Lefty Loomis (Alliance Criminal Partner)

  Red Watkins and Lefty Loomis are both named as actual criminals involved in the armored-car robbery and hiding in the mansion.

• Gladys Harmon → Lefty Loomis (Conflict Abduction Victim)

  Lefty Loomis is identified as one of the criminals involved in the mansion hideout where Gladys is abducted and restrained.

• Gladys Harmon → Red Watkins (Conflict Abduction Victim)

  Red Watkins is among the criminals who abduct Gladys after she arrives to inspect her inherited mansion.

• Shemp → Lefty Loomis (Conflict Adversary)

  Lefty Loomis is one of the criminals concealed in the mansion, and Shemp participates in the search and pursuit that leads to the criminals' arrest.

• Shemp → Red Watkins (Conflict Adversary)

  Red Watkins is identified as one of the actual criminals hiding in the mansion, while Shemp helps pursue and immobilize the criminals.

• Shemp → Gladys Harmon (Alliance Alibi Provider)

  Gladys Harmon provides the Stooges with an alibi after they are wrongly suspected of the armored-car robbery.

Story Analysis

A wrongly accused group becomes involved in a mansion kidnapping and defeats the criminals hiding there.

Plot Progression

1. The False Accusation
2. A Debt at the Café
3. The Dangerous Inheritance
4. The Storeroom Threat
5. Barrels and Arrests