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Holmes postpones beekeeping to investigate a violent death. With Norman Shelley. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1969.

The Baker Street sleuth postpones a spot of beekeeping in order to investigate a violent death.

Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley in their final series of tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories

Dramatised by Michael Hardwick.

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley
Stackhurst …. Garard Green
Murdoch …. Henry Davies
Bellamy …. Humphrey Morton
Maud Bellamy …. Pat Pleasance
Mrs Hudson …. Janet Morrison

Dramatist: Michael Hardwick

Producer: Graham Gauld

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in July 1969.

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30 minutes

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