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Holmes probes why identical, cheap plaster busts of Napoleon are being destroyed. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1966.

The Baker Street sleuth probes why identical, cheap plaster busts of Napoleon are being destroyed.

Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Michael Hardwick.

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley
Inspector Lestrade …. Humphrey Morton
Horace Harker …. Alan Dudley
Harding …. Leroy Lingwood
Morse Hudson…. Allan McClelland
Gelder …. Geoffrey Wincott
Sandeford …. Arthur Lawrence

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1966.

2 months left to listen

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 Dec 202301:00
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