The Barton Mystery is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Harry T. Roberts, produced by Oswald Stoll and starring Lyn Harding, Hilda Bayley and Arthur Pusey[1][2] It ran 72 minutes in length.
[1] Producer Stoll emigrated to England from Australia, and opened a chain of British movie theaters and later moved into film production.
When his longer length films didn't do well, he switched to making short subjects adapting best-selling novels of the day, featuring characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Fu Manchu.
He followed this film up with another "Yellow Peril" film, The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer, which in turn was followed by twenty-three short Fu Manchu movies[1] He later became a philanthropist and received a knighthood in 1919 for his charity work, finding housing for military veterans with mental illnesses.
Mrs. Standish's brother-in-law to be, Harry Maitland, is suspected of shooting him, since he had gone to Barton's apartment earlier to try to retrieve the incriminating letters.