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The forgotten adventures of Sherlock Holmes : based on the original radio plays by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green / H. Paul Jeffers.

Title
The forgotten adventures of Sherlock Holmes : based on the original radio plays by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green / H. Paul Jeffers.
Author
Jeffers, H. Paul (Harry Paul), 1934-
Publication
New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.

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Description
236 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  • This new collection of tales adapted from original plays written for NBC radio in the 1940s by the eminent mystery writer and critic Anthony Boucher, along with writing partner Denis Green, casts the world's greatest literary detective in thirteen too-long-forgotten and never-before-published mystifying adventures.
  • While the radio plays-which in the 1940s starred Basil Rathbone as the brilliant, eccentric master of deduction and Nigel Bruce as his loyal Dr. Watson-were based on characters and cases created by Arthur Conan Doyle, they entangled Doyle's villains and victims in continually new puzzling intrigues and perilous situations. Unparalleled among the plays written for the popular radio series, which ran for two decades (1930-50), are the sixty or so scripted by the ingenious Anthony Boucher.
  • Thirteen of Boucher and Green's radio plays have here been skillfully recrafted by H. Paul Jeffers into absorbing short stories. The product of a remarkable collaboration between Conan Doyle in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Boucher in the second, and Jeffers in 2004, The Forgotten Tales of Sherlock Holmes weds notable talents from several literary generations to continue detective fiction's greatest legend. Book jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Mystery fiction
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
In Flanders fields -- The Paradol chamber -- The accidental murderess -- The adventure of the Blarney Stone -- The book of Tobit -- The haunting of Sherlock Holmes -- The adventure of the stuttering ghost -- The clue of the hungry cat -- The singular affair of the dying schoolboys -- The adventure of the Sally Martin -- The adventure of the grand old man -- The Darlington substitution -- The adventure of Maltree Abbey.
ISBN
0786715871 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 61886232
  • SCSB-11742242
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library