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A Scandal in Bohemia and The Second Generation (Abridged): The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Episode 9 Audiobook
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A Scandal in Bohemia
Exactly as broadcast on December 10, 1945
She’s more brilliant than Sherlock Holmes! When Holmes goes undercover to save the King of Bohemia from scandal, he is faced with a beautiful and dangerous adversary. This radio drama is adapted from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story that made Sherlock Holmes famous.
The Second Generation
Exactly as broadcast on December 17, 1945
“History is repeating itself, Watson…”
In the marvelous sequel to A Scandal in Bohemia, Holmes and Watson return to Bohemia twenty years later.
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About the Authors
Anthony Boucher, pseudonym of William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968), was a prolific mystery author and Edgar Award–winning editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle as a mystery reviewer and also spent time writing for the New York Times. His short fiction has been published in many distinguished American fiction magazines, including Adventure, Black Mask, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales, and many others. His short story “The Quest for Saint Aquin” was selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories of all time. In the 1940s, he was also involved in radio, hosting a show called Golden Voices and writing a number of Sherlock Holmes dramas. He also helped to create the Mystery Writers of America in 1946 and served as president in 1951.
About the Narrators
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone (1892–1967) was a South African–born English actor. He rose to prominence in Britain as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over seventy films. He was widely recognized for his many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen feature films made between 1939 and 1946.
Nigel Bruce (1895–1953) was a British character actor best known for playing bumbling English aristocrats, high-society snobs, and military types. He played Dr. John Watson to Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes in a number of films, as well as in the classic radio show.