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The Problem of Thor Bridge and The Double Zero (Abridged): The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Episode 12 Audiobook
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The Problem of Thor Bridge
Exactly as broadcast on October 1, 1945
The young governess is a murderer—or so it seems when the wife of a wealthy mining magnate is found dead. But when Sherlock Holmes investigates, he finds clues that lead in an entirely different direction: to the real killer.
The Double Zero
Exactly as broadcast on November 19, 1945
The odds were long that two deaths would occur at the gambling casino where Holmes and Watson were spending their holiday. But were they murders or suicides? A classic mystery for armchair detectives!
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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.