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The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 8 April 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: police procedural
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
The complete collection of all 16 episodes from this gripping BBC Radio crime series
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing sixteen tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.
Starring James Fleet (Series 1, 3 and 4) and Tim Piggott-Smith (Series 2) as Lestrade, with casts featuring Andrew Scott, Paul Rhys, Anton Lesser, Honeysuckle Weeks, Rupert Vansittart, John Sessions, Marcia Warren and Tim McInnerny.
Dramatised for radio by Chris Harrald, these stories are written by masters of the crime and thriller genre, all contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle.
They include:
The Murders on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
Murder By Proxy by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin
The Mystery of Redstone Manor by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
The Problem of the Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle
The Clue of the Silver Spoons by Robert Barr
The Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green
The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
The Kinght's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah
A Snapshot by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin
Seven, Seven, Seven - City by Julius Chambers
The Moabite Cipher - by R Austin Freeman
The Clairvoyants - by Arthur B Reeve
The Stanway Cameo Mystery - Arthur Morrison
The Secret of Dunstan's Tower - Ernest Bramah
The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread - Jacques Futrelle
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko (Series 1) and Liz Webb (Series 2, 3, 4)
(c) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021
(p) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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Enjoyed that. I'd read them before, but the dramatisation is well done and using Lestrade as a linking device works surprisingly well too.
Iguanapaws 2026-01-17
Details
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe, Jacques Futrelle, Ernest Bramah, Matthias McDonnel Bodkin, Louisa Pirkis, Robert Barr, Anna Katherine Green, Julius Chambers, R. Austin Freeman, Arthur B Reeve, Arthur Morrison. Adapted by Chris Harrald
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529142303
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: police procedural
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
The complete collection of all 16 episodes from this gripping BBC Radio crime seriesInspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing sixteen tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.Starring James Fleet (Series 1, 3 and 4) and Tim Piggott-Smith (Series 2) as Lestrade, with casts featuring Andrew Scott, Paul Rhys, Anton Lesser, Honeysuckle Weeks, Rupert Vansittart, John Sessions, Marcia Warren and Tim McInnerny.Dramatised for radio by Chris Harrald, these stories are written by masters of the crime and thriller genre, all contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle.They include:The Murders on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle Murder By Proxy by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin The Mystery of Redstone Manor by Catherine Louisa Pirkis The Problem of the Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle The Clue of the Silver Spoons by Robert Barr The Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah The Kinght's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah A Snapshot by Matthias McDonnel Bodkin Seven, Seven, Seven - City by Julius Chambers The Moabite Cipher - by R Austin Freeman The Clairvoyants - by Arthur B Reeve The Stanway Cameo Mystery - Arthur Morrison The Secret of Dunstan's Tower - Ernest Bramah The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread - Jacques Futrelle Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko (Series 1) and Liz Webb (Series 2, 3, 4)(c) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021(p) BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2021
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