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Thriller Playhouse BOX SET: EIGHT thrilling episodes from the popular BBC Drama series, set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Audiobook
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Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, we meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective, Norman Conquest, the fast talking, hard hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble and a hell-rake disregard for danger and Ben, the chivalrous and non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’.
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BEN SEES IT THROUGH
A hat lost in the English Channel, a dagger buried in a toff’s back and an incriminating letter from an MP entice Ben into the world of arms dealers and smugglers!
THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS
Carrados and his ‘eyes’ Parkinson discover a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name
THE SECRET OF HEADLAM HEIGHT
As the First world War rapidly approaches, we arrive in a sleepy south coast town where Max Carrados is soon investigating the sudden death of the local museum curator.
THE INGENIOUS MIND OF RIGBY LACKSOME
Lured to Stratford upon Avon following an explosion, Carrados must solve the riddle of the missing body of William Shakespeare.
BLONDE FOR DANGER
The handsome desperado, Norman Conquest aka 1066, has to pit his wits against the evil crook Bosworth Field.
KILLER CONQUEST
Conquest with a nose for trouble and rake-hell disregard for danger keeps up good cheer and marches on while he biffs the baddies.
MISS DYNAMITE
Our gentleman adventurer, having met a beautiful young lady in the middle of the night soon finds himself on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves.
CONQUEST MARCHES ON
Off to the theatre, our fast talking, hard hitting hero finds himself accused of assaulting a pretty young lady on the underground.
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About the Authors
Alan Ladd (1913–1964) was an award-winning American actor and film and television producer. He found cinematic success in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noir. He is especially known for his role in the movie Shane. His awards include a Picturegoer Award for Best Actor in 1947 for the movie This Gun for Hire, and in 1953 he was named Most Popular Male Star by Photoplay magazine. He contributed as an actor or producer in more than a hundred films and television shows over the course of his career.
John Baddeley is a British voice actor whose credits include many BBC radio productions, the narrator of the documentary The Death Train, and the voice of Winston Churchill in a 2003 PBS miniseries.
About the Narrators
Bill Nighy is a multi-award-winning actor who has appeared in many TV dramas, including State of Play, The Girl in the Café, and Page Eight, for which he received a Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. He won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for his role as Billy Mack in Love Actually, while his other films include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and the smash hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Bill Nighy is a multi-award-winning actor who has appeared in many TV dramas, including State of Play, The Girl in the Café, and Page Eight, for which he received a Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. He won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for his role as Billy Mack in Love Actually, while his other films include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and the smash hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Christopher Benjamin is an actor, known for The Plague Dogs, Angel, and The Black Velvet Gown.
Christopher Cazenove (1943–2010), one of England’s finest actors, starred on stage and television in the United States and Great Britain. His motion-picture credits include A Knight’s Tale, Eye of the Needle, Children of the Full Moon, and Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill. He played Ben Carrington on television’s Dynasty.
Bleak December Inc. is a multimedia company founded by Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony D.P. Mann.
Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A.
Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A.
Simon Callow is an actor, director, and writer. He has appeared in many films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral. He made his stage debut in 1973 and came to prominence in a critically acclaimed performance as Mozart in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the Royal National Theatre in 1979. He is well known for a series of one-man shows that have toured internationally and featured subjects including Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jesus, and Richard Wagner. His books include, among others, a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, a biographical trilogy on Orson Welles, and My Life in Pieces, which won the Sheridan Morley Prize in 2011.
Tony Robinson is an actor and audiobook narrator and actor whose first professional appearance was at the age of thirteen in the original version of the stage musical Oliver!, followed by a number of shows, films, and TV appearances as a child actor. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he spent several years in rep, and worked for two years as a theater director, before moving on to the Chichester Festival Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. It was around this time that he made his first notable television appearance as the cerebral palsied Ernie Roberts in Horizon’s award-winning documentary Joey. Robinson came to prominence for his role as Baldrick on the BBC series Blackadder, and has been a fixture in entertainment since, hosting the long-running Time Team and the popular Worst Jobs series, and winning numerous awards as a writer of children’s television programs.
Simon Callow is an actor, director, and writer. He has appeared in many films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral. He made his stage debut in 1973 and came to prominence in a critically acclaimed performance as Mozart in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the Royal National Theatre in 1979. He is well known for a series of one-man shows that have toured internationally and featured subjects including Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jesus, and Richard Wagner. His books include, among others, a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, a biographical trilogy on Orson Welles, and My Life in Pieces, which won the Sheridan Morley Prize in 2011.
Christopher Benjamin is an actor, known for The Plague Dogs, Angel, and The Black Velvet Gown.
Bonnie Langford is an British film, television, and stage actor who began her career at the tender age of six, when she won Hughie Green’s Opportunity Knocks television talent contest. She is best known for her roles in Doctor Who, Bugsy Malone, and The Hot Shoe Show.
Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A.