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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 17, 2022 13:06:14 GMT
About the authors
Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his literaryexecutor, worked on the stories in this book using the very desk on which his fatherwrote.John Dickson Carr was one of Americaās most celebrated mystery writers, theauthor of forty-six novels (including The Three Coffins and Till Death Do Us Part) āand of twenty-four more under the pen name of Carter Dickson.
CONTENTS
ALWAYS HOLMES
By Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEVEN CLOCKS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD HUNTER
THE ADVENTURE OF THE WAX GAMBLERS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIGHGATE MIRACLE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEALED ROOM
By Adrian Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURE OF FOULKES RATH
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBAS RUBY
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DARK ANGELS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWO WOMEN
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEPTFORD HORROR
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED WIDOW
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david
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Post by david on Jan 17, 2022 13:09:20 GMT
And oh, a number of his radio plays have been published and many of the original broadcasts survive. They are a lot of fun. But, as you can see, I could go on and on, and I should probably stop here... My ebook site does audiobooks, and three of these popped up when I searched for Carr: Suspense Collection Written by Black Eye Entertainment ![]()  ![]() ![]() Blurb: Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age. Known as "Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills", it focused on suspenseful stories starring the biggest names in Hollywood. Early in the run, the episodes were hosted by the 'Man In Black' who, from an omniscient perch, narrated stories of people thrown into dangerous or bizarre situations with plots that, at the very end, usually had an unseen twist or two. Hollywood's finest actors jumped at the chance to appear on Suspense, including: Cary Grant, James Stewart, Alan Ladd, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Orson Welles. Scripts were by John Dickson Carr, Lucille Fletcher, James Poe, Ray Bradbury and many others. Running more than 20 years, Suspense aired nearly 1,000 radio broadcasts. It made the transition to television in 1949, but it was much better suited for radio where the "theatre of the mind" could run free This is Volume 1 content: "Dead of the Night" w/ Robert Cummings "I Had an Alibi" w/ Keenan Wynn "A Tale of Two Sisters" w/ Claire Trevor and Nancy Kelly "Cricket" w/ Margaret O'Brien and Dame May Whitty "A Guy Gets Lonely" w/ Dane Clark "Two Sharp Knives" w/ John Payne "The Story of Ivy" w/ Ann Richards "The Dealings of Mr. Markham" w/ Henry Daniell and Joan Lorring "Footfalls" w/ J. Carrol Naish "Bank Holiday" w/ Bonita Granville "A Man in the House" w/ Joan Lorring "Murder for Myra" w/ Lloyd Nolan Carr did a number of scripts for Suspense. The most famous episode was called Cabin B-13, which was spun off into its own radio series. Carr also did a series in England call Appointment with Fear. He revised some of his Suspense scripts for that series. He also hosted a series in England that featured stories by other writers. I think it was called Murder By Experts, but I would need to recheck that. Anyway, a lot of his radio plays can be found free online at the Internet Archive and some other sites. His radio scripts have been reprinted in Fell and Foul Play, The Door to Doom, The Dead Sleep Lightly, 13 to the Gallows, and Speak of the Devil. Most recently, all of his Cabin B-13 scripts were reprinted in The Island of Coffins published by Crippen and Landru. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 17, 2022 13:11:12 GMT
The Adventure of the Seven Clocks
I find recorded in my notebook that it was on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 16th of November, 1887, when the attention of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was first drawn tothe singular affair of the man who hated clocks.
I have written elsewhere that I had heard only a vague account of this matter, since itoccurred shortly after my marriage. Indeed, I have gone so far as to state that my first post-nuptial call on Holmes was in March of the following year. But the case in question was amatter of such extreme delicacy that I trust my readers will forgive its suppression by onewhose pen has ever been guided by discretion rather than by sensationalism.
A few weeks following my marriage, then, my wife was obliged to leave London on a matterwhich concerned Thaddeus Sholto and vitally affected our future fortunes. Finding our newhome insupportable without her presence, for eight days I returned to the old rooms in BakerStreet. Sherlock Holmes made me welcome without question or comment. Yet I must confessthat the next day, the 16th of November, began inauspiciously.
It was bitter, frosty weather. All morning the yellow-brown fog pressed against thewindows. Lamps and gas-jets were burning, as well as a good fire, and their light shone on a breakfast-table uncleared at past midday.
Sherlock Holmes was moody and distraught. Curled up in his arm-chair in the old mouse-coloured dressing-gown and with a cherry-wood pipe in his mouth, he scanned themorning newspapers, now and again uttering some derisive comment.
"You find little of interest?" I asked."My dear Watson," said he, "I begin to fear that life has become one flat andmonotonous plain ever since the affair of the notorious Blessington."
"And yet," I remonstrated, "surely this has been a year of memorable cases? You are over-stimulated, my dear fellow."
" 'Pon my word, Watson, you are scarcely the man to preach on that subject. Last night, afterI had ventured to offer you a bottle of Beaune at dinner, you held forth so interminably on the joys of wedlock that I feared you would never have done."
"My dear fellow! You imply that I was over-stimulated with wine!" My friend regarded me inhis singular fashion."Not with wine, perhaps," said he. "However!" And he indicated the newspapers. "Have youglanced over the balderdash with which the press have seen fit to regale us!"
"I fear not. This copy of the British Medical Journal ā"
"Well, well!" said he. "Here we find column upon column devoted to next year's racingseason. For some reason it seems perpetually to astonish the British public that one horse canrun faster than another. Again, for the dozenth time, we have the Nihilists hatching somedark plot against the Grand Duke Alexei at Odessa. One entire leading article is devoted to thedoubtless trenchant question, 'Should Shop-Assistants Marry?'"
"I forbore to interrupt him, lest his bitterness increase
The Adventure of the Red Widow
"Your conclusions are perfectly correct, my dear Watson," remarked my friend Sherlock Holmes. "Squalor and poverty are the natural matrix to crimes of violence."
"Precisely so," I agreed. "Indeed, I was just thinkingā" I broke off to stare at him inamazement. "Good heavens, Holmes," I cried, "this is too much. How could you possibly knowmy innermost thoughts!"
My friend leaned back in his chair and, placing his finger-tips together, surveyed me fromunder his heavy, drooping eyelids.
"I would do better justice, perhaps, to my limited powers by refusing to answer yourquestion," he said, with a dry chuckle. "You have a certain flair, Watson, for concealing yourfailure to perceive the obvious by the cavalier manner in which you invariably accept theexplanation of a sequence of simple but logical reasoning."
"I do not see how logical reasoning can enable you to follow the course of my mental processes," I retorted, a trifle nettled by his superior manner.
"There was no great difficulty. I have been watching you for the last few minutes. Theexpression on your face was quite vacant until, as your eyes roved about the room, they fellon the bookcase and came to rest on Hugo's Les Miserables which made so deep animpression upon you when you read it last year. You became thoughtful, your eyes narrowed, itwas obvious that your mind was drifting again into that tremendous dreadful saga of humansuffering; at length your gaze lifted to the window with its aspect of snow-flakes and grey skyand bleak, frozen roofs, and then, moving slowly on to the mantelpiece, settled on the jack-knifeWith which I skewer my unanswered correspondence. The frown darkened on your face andunconsciously you shook your head despondently. It was an association of ideas. Hugo's terriblesub-third stage, the winter cold of poverty in the slums and, above the warm glow of our ownmodest fire, the bare knife-blade. Your expression deepened into one of sadness, the melancholythat comes with an understanding of cause and effect in the unchanging human tragedy. It wasthen that I ventured to agree with you."
"Well, I must confess that you followed my thoughts with extraordinary accuracy," Iadmitted. "A remarkable piece of reasoning, Holmes."
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
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Post by david on Jan 17, 2022 13:18:47 GMT
About the authors Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his literaryexecutor, worked on the stories in this book using the very desk on which his fatherwrote.John Dickson Carr was one of Americaās most celebrated mystery writers, theauthor of forty-six novels (including The Three Coffins and Till Death Do Us Part) āand of twenty-four more under the pen name of Carter Dickson. CONTENTS ALWAYS HOLMES By Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEVEN CLOCKS THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD HUNTER THE ADVENTURE OF THE WAX GAMBLERS THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIGHGATE MIRACLE THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEALED ROOM By Adrian Conan Doyle THE ADVENTURE OF FOULKES RATH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBAS RUBY THE ADVENTURE OF THE DARK ANGELS THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWO WOMEN THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEPTFORD HORROR THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED WIDOW is actually revised from a radio script, Menace in Wax. |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 17, 2022 13:55:45 GMT
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Post by david on Jan 17, 2022 19:30:46 GMT
Thanks very much for this, Hel. The Baker Street Irregulars were certainly an interesting bunch of charactrers, and I look forward to reading it. I was once actually invited to a dinner hosted by the Rhode Island branch of the BSI ("The Cornish Horrors"). That came about because I used to frequent a mystery bookstore in Providence, RI whose proprieter was a member, and I somehow ended up on their mailing list. I didn't go, however, because at that time I was living in a state of genteel (I like to think) poverty as a grad student and/or adjunct instructor, and the cost of the dinner was way out of my price range (or so my wife clearly informed me). I have another story connected to that bookstore which speaks to my poverty-stricken state at that time as well a to an amazing lack of foresight on my part. The bookstore owner was also a friend of Donald Grant, the RI fantasy publisher. I walked into the place one Friday afternoon to find stacks and stacks to the original edition of Stephen King's The Dark Tower piled on the floor Kevin had agreed to hold them there prior to their distribution. I dearly wanted to buy a copy, but the price-tag ($10.00, unless memory fails me), was a little steep for me at the time. If I had only figured just how collectible they would someday become, I would have drawn funds from my small bank account to purchase several copies. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 17, 2022 20:37:43 GMT
About the authors Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his literaryexecutor, worked on the stories in this book using the very desk on which his fatherwrote.John Dickson Carr was one of Americaās most celebrated mystery writers, theauthor of forty-six novels (including The Three Coffins and Till Death Do Us Part) āand of twenty-four more under the pen name of Carter Dickson. CONTENTS ALWAYS HOLMES By Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEVEN CLOCKS THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD HUNTER THE ADVENTURE OF THE WAX GAMBLERS THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIGHGATE MIRACLE THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET THE ADVENTURE OF THE SEALED ROOM By Adrian Conan Doyle THE ADVENTURE OF FOULKES RATH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBAS RUBY THE ADVENTURE OF THE DARK ANGELS THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWO WOMEN THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEPTFORD HORROR THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED WIDOW is actually revised from a radio script, Menace in Wax.There are four ejaculations from Adrian Conan Doyle but none from John Dickson Carr. What does this say about Doyle? |
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Post by david on Jan 18, 2022 0:19:19 GMT
Wax Gamblers is actually revised from a radio script, Menace in Wax. There are four ejaculations from Adrian Conan Doyle but none from John Dickson Carr. What does this say about Doyle? He was apparently an easily excitable guy. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 12, 2022 20:26:34 GMT
Are the Carr fans on this site familar with Paul Halter's work? Yes. |
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