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When a young lady approaches Sherlock Holmes looking for help in finding out what happened to her father when he disappeared 10 years earlier, both Holmes and Watson are sent on a mission involving stolen treasure, service in colonial India and a secret pact among four ex-convicts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of the American publication Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889. Stoddart wanted to produce an English version of Lippincott's with a British editor and British contributors. The dinner was also attended by Oscar Wilde , who eventually contributed The Picture of Dorian Gray to the July 1890 issue. Doyle discussed what he called this "golden evening" in his 1924 Autobiographies/ Memories and Adventures. The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine as The Sign of the Four; or The Problem of the Sholtos, appearing in both London and Philadelphia. The British edition of the magazine originally sold for a shilling , and the American for 25 cents. Surviving copies are now worth several thousand dollars. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written  by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's  poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". Fun Facts Bertram Fletcher Robinson was a writer who was a friend of Doyle's. Shortly after his return from the Boer War, Robinson invited Doyle to visit him at Ippleton in Devonshire. Supposedly, Robinson had been working on a story about the moor based on a 17th century legend with a demon hound. Doyle who had killed off Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” was faced with a public outcry to produce more Holmes stories and quickly. There is speculation that Doyle may have tried to adapt Robinson's story into a tale of Sherlock Holmes and that would explain why the great detective appears so little in the story. In the late Fifties, Doyle's son responded to such charges by stating: “Fletcher Robinson wrote not one word of the story. He refused my father's offer to collaborate and retired at an early stage of the project.” What all the sources agree on is that Doyle did indeed take a coach ride with Robinson over the moor to get the atmosphere of the place while Robinson recounted the story of Sir Richard Cabell, Lord of the Manor of Brooke. Lord Cabell was a man of well known evil repute. He was a very jealous man and one night he viciously accused his wife of having an affair. Lady Cabell denied it. Enraged, Cabell beat her mercilessly. Somehow, she was able to break away from him and ran from the house, hoping to escape in the surrounding moors. The moors were a cold, desolate place. Lord Cabell caught up to her and in his enraged state killed her with one of his hunting knives. Suddenly, a huge hound appeared. It was Lady Cabell's own faithful dog and it had followed the couple onto the moors. Seeing his mistress killed, the hound savagely attacked Cabell and after a fierce struggle, slaughtered the evil man. However, the hound itself had been fatally wounded by Lord Cabell's knife and in the morning the villagers found the poor animal lying dead beside his slain mistress. According to local legend, the ghost of Lady Cabell's hound still roams the moors on the nights of the full moon, howling mournfully for its dead mistress. Another legend claims that on the night of Lord Cabell's death, black hounds breathing fire and smoke raced over nearby Dartmoor and howled around his manor house. Lord Cabell's death took place in 1677. A small pagoda-like building called “The Sepulchre” was put over his grave to prevent him from returning to cause even more evil. “It is said that he will gnaw your finger if you venture to insert it in the keyhole of the locked door,” wrote the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

PARKER: Look, two doctors examined that body - one with close knowledge of the deceased, the other entirely independent. They found nothing. WIMSEY: As would 99 doctors out of 100. The 100th might be looking for something the others weren't. PARKER: But looking for what? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

'Just about the last time I saw Sue before she vanished, she said something very odd ... she said that when she was 25 something terrible was going to happen to her. I didn't really take her seriously .. -. but the night before last, this dream ... she was standing in front of me, staring at me and just repeating it over and over again:  "Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible is going to happen".' Rod Beacham ( Dec 3 1940-Feb 12 2013) He was active in radio drama, firstly as a performer but later writing a number of plays . Although he enjoyed thrillers, he frequently ventured into other areas and his play 'Frame of Deference' was a thinly-veiled, light-hearted attack on the American Dream using the medium of Science Fiction. He continued writing for the market until 1994 although few examples of his work actually survive they are mostly in private collections. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

 the arrival of an angel, and the exploration of the contrasting worlds of humans and angels. The vicar's curiosity leads him to engage with the angel, revealing themes of dreams, reality, and the complexities of social dynamics in a village setting. As the angel navigates this new world, he faces conflicts with societal expectations, ultimately leading to a tragic fire that intertwines the fates of the angel and a young maid named Delia. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well regarded that he has been called the "father of science fiction". In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a  progressive vision on a global scale. As a futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Raymond Chandler's cynical world-weary private eye is drawn into the brutal murder of his drinking buddy's wife. Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a Detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers don't shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular Pulp Magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery writers of America Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H .G Wells, first published in 1905. It was reportedly Wells own favorite among his works, Arthur "Artie" Kipps, an illegitimate orphan. In Book I, "The Making of Kipps", he is raised by his aged aunt and uncle, who keep a little shop in New Romney on the southeastern coast of Kent He attends the Cavendish Academy – "a middle-class school" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Penny Dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century Melodrama and London Legend. A Barber from Fleet Street, Todd murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes there flesh into meat pies. The tale has been retold many times since in various media. Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are disputed strongly by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

 a medieval Mystery Novel by Ellis Peters, first of four novels set in the disruptive year of 1141. It is the ninth in  and was first published in 1984. The Sheriff of Shropshire is wounded and taken prisoner by Welsh on the side of Empress Maud in a major battle. His return requires an exchange, bringing two lively young Welshmen into the castle where the Sheriff's daughter resides. Welshmen on the border with England see opportunities for their own benefit as the chaos in England continues, with the King captured. This novel received some enthusiastic and positive reviews at the time of publication. The plot includes "a denouement that combines rough justice and love triumphant." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

A body is found and a body is lost - but whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body of famous financier Sir Reuben Levy, who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. It is a mystery indeed; the serial novel was just half completed at the time of Dickens' death - leading to much speculation on how it might have ended. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

It is May 1137, and the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shewsbury seems to be in spiritual (and financial) straights because they have no sacred relics to attract pilgrims. However, a rather too-convenient vision of an obscure Welsh female saint, St. Winnifred, sends a group of the Brothers, headed by the ambitious Prior Robert and including the Welsh-born Brother Cadfael, to the village of Gwytherin, where the saint is supposed to be buried. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The case is proving difficult to crack, and for Watson there are tricky matters of the heart to negotiate.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Dr. Watson remonstrates with Holmes about his cocaine usage. Holmes claims that his mind "rebels at stagnation", and that he needs a problem to solve in order to stimulate himself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Two young undergraduates think they've committed the perfect murder.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

With England at civil war in 1138, Brother Cadfael has a medieval murder on his hands. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Mr. Justice Carstairs is a High Court judge...as well as a chronic worrier and extremely conscientious. In a recent case, he sentenced a man to ten years imprisonment; however, his conscience begins to prick him about the way in which he conducted the trial and that the alibi given by the defendant's wife may in fact be true --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard is puzzled. He consults Mr Sherlock Holmes, a rather eccentric young gentleman who, together with J. H. Watson MD, has recently taken up residence at 221B Baker Stree --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, in which a broken leg is no barrier to leading the hunt for a real-life demon of Victorian crime ... a man whom, it is said, claimed at the very moment of his execution that he was Jack the Ripper! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Howard Gilbert has been convicted of murdering Brenda Sterling. Mr. Stirling, Brenda's father, visits Paul Temple and expresses his belief that Gilbert is innocent --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The conversation revolves around the story of Clyde Griffiths, a young man who becomes involved in a series of tragic events. He starts off as a bellhop, but his life takes a turn when he meets Roberta Alden and falls in love with her. However, Clyde is also involved with another woman, Sandra Finchley. As the story unfolds, Clyde's relationships become complicated, leading to a tragic accident that results in Roberta's death. Clyde is arrested and stands trial for murder, ultimately being found guilty and sentenced to death. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced Ranch Workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

 Wilder's epistolary novel centred around the last days of the Roman republic.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

David Peters is visited in his run-down bedsit by Marie, a researcher for Severn Television, who is collecting material for a documentary about the singer Al Bowlly. David is the editor of the Al Bowlly Appreciation Society fanzine and Marie hopes to secure him as the programme advisor. David is enthusiastic about the offer but has other things on his mind; he has an appointment with an NHS psychiatrist the following day and his anxiety about the meeting, coupled with the novelty of entertaining his beautiful visitor, leads him to make an unwelcome pass at her... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Inspector Colman and Sargeant Astor The duo are faced with a wall of silence when a resident of the notorious Gantry Estate is found badly beaten.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Cordelia Gray is engaged by Sir George Ralston, a baronet and world war 2 hero, to accompany his wife, the acclaimed actress Clarissa Lisle, for a weekend at Courcy Castle on the island of the same name on the Dorset coast. Clarissa has been receiving thinly veiled death threats in form of quotations from plays where she played the main role. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

With her life in danger, actress Clarissa Lisle turns to private detective Cordelia Gray. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

a day in the life of a middle-class London family whose lives are complicated by the first romantic signs of spring. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Early in 1914, two men meet by chance in the wilds of German East Africa – one, Leopold von Ragastein is a German, the other, Sir Everard Dominey an Englishman.  Both men are roughly the same age, they share a similar background and each man looks almost identical to the other.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

When Stephen decides to fly to Greece, it's for one reason only.  He's determined to rid himself of a secret fear - a fear so painful that he'll try anything to conquer it... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Richard Young experiments with a hallucinogenic drug that transports him back to fourteenth-century Cornwall, just before the onset of the Black Death. His initial encounter is so overwhelming that he knows he must repeat it, even though he suffers horrible after-effects. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Recently widowed George Carey has an irrational hatred for the old apple tree in his garden. He decides it must be dug up - but it's a decision he's going to regret for the rest of his life - what's left of it... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Jim is keen to help his firm meet their sales targets. But nothing must interrupt the concentration of senior staff in their daily struggle with The Times crossword puzzle. Jim has a brainwave that involves a complicated scheme to complete the puzzle without actually working out the answers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Arriving at Manderley, the young Mrs de Winter finds the beautiful mansion and its occupants haunted by memories of Rebecca - the first wife of her new husband Maxim... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

DI Frost is tough, rough and rude. He does things his way—and gets results. But when Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, including , robbery, an attack and a missing girl and a hit-and-run incident, he finds himself under pressure...  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Elderly lady living alone in remote house, willing to take in paying guests.' Miss Pickering's newspaper advert seems innocuous, but she has an ulterior motive—as do the four gentlemen who reply. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Paul de Vries comes from one of Ceylon's oldest colonial families, but has been brought up in England where he now works in an architect's office.  His father died two years ago, but suddenly he receives letters from the dead man asking him to return to the land of his birth... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

A respected Pennsylvanian judge, Mathew Deacon, crosses the Atlantic and heads to Cambridge to find why his son, Robert, went missing and is now presumed dead. Learning from Robert's friend, Griffin, that the university student was passionately in love with a mysterious red-haired beauty called Dorothy Northcott, Mathew heads to Northcott Manor deep in the Fen marshlands, for answers. But in the darkness, Mathew encounters what could only be described as a werewolf. Could Robert have fallen victim to this supernatural creature? And what dark secrets are the Northcott family hiding? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

An affluent middle-class couple look for “the proper school”, not for their children but for themselves.  Based upon the prospectuses they study, they select and enrol at Crampton's School.  When they arrive, they are immediately treated like every other pupil; no-one responds to them as adults at any point in the play. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The Ringer The Ringer, a dangerous criminal believed to have died in Australia, turns up again in England, to the consternation of Scotland Yard. Maurice Meister, a crooked lawyer, has more reason than most to fear the master crook's return, but who can be sure of the elusive Ringer's real identity?  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The dumping of a mutilated corpse in the Place de la Concorde involves Maigret in the hunt for a gang of cold-blooded killers in the slums --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The ancestral home of Lord Lebanon is the scene of two murders. Inspector Tanner goes down to investigate and is confronted by a very frightened young --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The body of world-famous financier Colonel Ward is found in one of the suites of the Hotel George V in Paris. Because of his position, much tact must be used to investigate the mystery surrounding his death. Supt Maigret is assigned to the case and soon finds himself in the totally alien world of the international jet set. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Roger attends a party with the questionable theme 'famous murderers and their victims', only to discover that one difficult guest has been deliberately killed on one of the party's props. When Roger suspects one of his close friends may be involved, he decides to meddle in the evidence - but is he putting his own life at risk with this mischievous intervention? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Why should Albert think of going out when his mother looks after him so well and has such a nice supper for him? It's something his mother will never understand to her dying day --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

The mill band are marching through the snow up to their ankles. There's a bonfire up the road. People linking hands and circling round the fire. Talk about pagan rites!'  Even if the villagers have been tortured by a vindictive, spiteful grasping woman, Superintendent Baxter doesn't expect her murder to be a cause for celebration. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Blake investigates the unexplained murders of four wealthy society women. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Hollywood director Curt Zorack's film shoot is interrupted by the death of one of the cast. But is it suicide or murder? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

A solicitor's office has a new phone line connected, but the staff keep hearing a woman's voice on the phone.Engineer Frank Wilson is called to fix the problem, and gradually the disturbing story of the woman starts to emerge. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

Kate and Janice are spending a peaceful day out in the heart of the Sussex countryside. While looking around Berwick Church in Rodmell, Janice accidentally bumps into an "old flame" -- a local MP. His curious behaviour arouses their suspicion and with nothing better to do, they decide to make a few inquiries. Then Janice disappears ... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support

On the Hudson River nit far from New York stands a century old mansion once the home of wealthy landowners and the science iglf lavish parties, now the setting if murder --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support