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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