| Title | : | The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives |
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| Author | : | Robert Barr, Edgar Allan Poe, Julius Chambers, R. Austin Freeman, Arthur B. Reeve, Matthias McDonnel Bodkin, Jacques Futrelle, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Louisa Pirkis, Chris Harrald & Anna Katherine Green |
| Release | : | 2021-04-08 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Mysteries & Thrillers |
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| 1 | The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes&rsq | Robert Barr, Edgar Allan Poe, Julius Chambers, R. Austin Freeman, Arthur B. Reeve, Matthias McDonnel Bodkin, Jacques Futrelle, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Louisa Pirkis, Chris Harrald & Anna Katherine Green |
| The complete collection of all 16 episodes from this gripping BBC Radio crime series Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing sixteen tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes. Starring James Fleet (Series 1, 3 and 4) and Tim Piggott-Smith (Series 2) as Lestrade, with casts featuring Andrew Scott, Paul Rhys, Anton Lesser, Honeysuckle Weeks, Rupert Vansittart, John Sessions, Marcia Warren and Tim McInnerny. Dramatised for radio by Chris Harrald, these stories are written by masters of the crime and thriller genre, all contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle. They include: The Murders on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle Murder By Proxy by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin The Mystery of Redstone Manor by Catherine Louisa Pirkis The Problem of the Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle The Clue of the Silver Spoons by Robert Barr The Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah The Kinght's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah A Snapshot by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin Seven, Seven, Seven - City by Julius Chambers The Moabite Cipher - by R Austin Freeman The Clairvoyants - by Arthur B Reeve The Stanway Cameo Mystery - Arthur Morrison The Secret of Dunstan's Tower - Ernest Bramah The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread - Jacques Futrelle Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko (Series 1) and Liz Webb (Series 2, 3, 4) (c) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021 (p) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021 |
