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The Baker Street sleuth is called to probe the disappearance of a very secret letter. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1967.

The Baker Street detective is called to investigate the disappearance of a very secret letter.

Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Michael Hardwick

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson …. Norman Shelley
Lord Bellinger …. Geoffrey Wincott
The Right Hon Trelawney Hope …. Simon Lacs
Mrs Hudson …. Barbara Mitchell
Lady Hope …. Hilda Schroder
Inspector Lestrade …. Humphrey Morton
Constable MacPherson …. Arthur Lawrence

Producer: Martyn C Webster.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1967.

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30 minutes

Last on

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