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The Man With the Twisted Lip

Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1
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The Baker Street sleuth searches for a missing husband. Arthur Conan Doyle thriller with Norman Shelley. From May 1959.

Dr Watson goes gallantly in search of a missing husband at the 'Bar of Gold' opium den in Upper Swandam Lane.

He has a curious encounter with a tall, old man whose eyes are dull, whose skin is wrinkled-and yet whose voice is at once familiar...

Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes. The actor played the Baker Street sleuth in 80 radio dramas between 1952 and 1969.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand Magazine in 1891. Adapted by Michael Hardwick.

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley
Inspector Bradstreet …. Ronald Baddiley
Mrs St Clair …. Hilda Schroder
Mrs Whitney …. Eva Stuart
Boone …. Frederick Treves
Mrs Watson …. Sylvia Coleridge
Isa Whitney …. Robert Sansom
The Coachman …. Garard Green
The Constable …. Joe Sterne

Producer: Frederick Bradnum

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1959.

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