The Teahouse Detective - 1998 BBC Audio Drama torrent

The Teahouse Detective - Baroness Orczy - 1998 BBC Audio Drama
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BBC dramatisations from 1998 based on 'The Old Man in the Corner' short stories by Baroness Orczy, published in 1908.

Stars Bernard Hepton as an unnamed armchair detective who examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist (suzanne Burden). He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Eight 45 minute episodes.

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1 - The York Mystery
A ragged old customer applies his uncanny deductive powers to a bookmakers murder.

2 - The Metropolitan Line Murder
Polly seeks help from an enigmatic customer in a London teahouse over her friends killing .

3 - The Body in the Barge
A River Thames corpse sparks a complex mystery for the astute old teahouse customer.

4- The de Genneville Peerage
A murder shatters Polly, as the old man's crime-solving efforts meet furious resistance.

5 - The Dublin Mystery
A dying businessman appears to have settled his will, but revenge wreaks family havoc.

6 - The Edinburgh Mystery
Murder is afoot when a worried aunt tackles her nephew - a case for the man in the corner.

7 - The Brighton Mystery
An American heiress is blackmailed by her 'dead' husband.

8 - The London Mystery
The canny man in the corner helps Polly when a gambler is accused of murder.

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