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The Baker Street sleuth’s probes odd events at a racing stable. With Norman Shelley. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1959.

The great detective heads to Berkshire to investigate strange events at a racing stable...

Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes.

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

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley
John Mason/Coachman …. Frederick Treves
Mrs Norlett/Pageboy …. Fanny Carby
Josiah Barnes …. Ronald Baddiley
Sir Robert Norbarton …. Godfrey Kenton
Mr Norlett …. Robert Sansom
Stephens/Dog …. Frank Atkinson

Adapted by Michael Hardwick.

Producer: Frederick Bradnum

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959.

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