Episode 2
Sherlock Holmes has been consulted by a London art dealer who believes he is being hunted by a member of the Flat Cap Gang in revenge for the death of his twin.
Sherlock Holmes has been consulted by London art dealer Edmund Carstairs.
A notorious Boston gang has inadvertently destroyed four valuable paintings during the course of a train robbery. Carstairs persuaded a wealthy American benefactor to fund a reward for the capture of the Flat Cap Gang, but during the manhunt, one of the leaders of the gang was killed. Now Carstairs is being watched by a man in a flat cap and he fears that the gangster's twin has followed him to London to exact revenge.
Read by Derek Jacobi and abridged by Jane Marshall.
Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Tue 8 Nov 201122:45BBC Radio 4
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