Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
Category:Crime
Series:Sherlock Holmes
Total pages:87
Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the first collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.
'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb': No murder, but blood - dripping from an engineer's thumb. Watson's patient is involved in a bizarre incident that leaves even Holmes baffled.
'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor': Lord St. Simon's wedding day ends in disaster when his American bride disappears and her clothes are found in a lake. Holmes knows the apparent murder is nothing more than a cover for the truth.
'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet': 'Holmes, here is a madman coming along.' But the terrified banker Watson sees isn't mad, but the victim in a tortuous affair involving a costly coronet, a lover and a wronged son.
'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches': A seemingly good-humoured employer offers Violet Hunter a well-paid governess position but she soon finds the house contains frightening secrets that only Holmes can uncover.