"Of course," said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to a pasticheur in 1923, "you cannot use my characters." Mr. Eustace has, with some ingenuity, added a further question to an average-quality murder mystery set in Victorian England. Is his amateur investigator, an Oxford undergraduate whose name is given as 'Vernet', and has friends named Victor and Reginald, by any chance Sherlock Holmes?
Myself, I feel that this added question or dimension to these 2 plays detracts rather than adds to the plays. They serve no purpose and simply confuse the stories with the listener trying to figure out whether this that and other facts relate to SH. I tend to take them as the sleuth being Vernet.
Absolute Discretion
by Grant Eustace
Saturday Playhouse, 12 January 1991
Afternoon Play 4 January 1993
Arthur Vernet, a chemistry student at Oxford in the 1870s, arrives in Somerset to investigate a mystery surrounding the Earl of Warminster's family. He is soon embroiled in blackmail, murder and the love of a good woman.
Cast: Ben Daniels [Arthur Vernet], Brett Usher [The Earl], Jane Slavin [Alice Selwood], Maxine Audley [Lady Edith Gratton], Elizabeth Kelly [Lady Maud], Terence Edmond [Blaine], Ronald Herdman [Buckmaster], Michael Turner [Amos Sadler, the postmaster], Timothy Carlton [The Reverend Denison], Danielle Allan [Mrs Denison], Auriol Smith [Mrs Selwood], Stephen Garlick [William], Jane Whittenshaw [Miss Staples], Jenny Howe [Mrs Lamont], Timothy Bateson [Walters] and David Bannerman [Mitchell].
Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid.
160/44; 98.1 MB; sound quality very good
The Salamander Chest
by Grant Eustace.
Afternoon Play, 11 January 1993, 14.00
Saturday Playhouse, 16 April 1994
In the sequel to Absolute Discretion, Alice Selwood strives to seek out the true identity of her father and in the course of her adventures finds that 1870s England can be a dangerous place. But first she must find her beloved Arthur in Oxford -- and Arthur Vernet doesn't exist.
Cast: Ben Daniels [Arthur Beresford], Jane Slavin [Alice Selwood], Philip Latham [Prof. Arbuthnot], Jonathan Adams [George Ryder], David Brierley [Adm. Priestley], John Baddeley [Blennerhorn], Andrew Branch [Miles Cunningham], Sean Barrett [Ronald Murchison], Geraldine Fitzgerald [Mrs Wiseman], Terry O?Brien [Joseph Polzine], Philip Anthony [Brecknell], Snoo Wilson [Goacher]. Other parts played by members of the cast.
Directed by Alec Reid.
160/44; 98.3 MB; sound quality very good
There is a 1-second patch from a mono encode at 46:24.
Thanks to Sad Sack and Usenet for these two Mysteries
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Many thanks, Rick. My deepest sympathies on your harrowing health challenges.
Thank you for these, Rick. Best wishes for your continued recovery.
Glad you made it through there. I can see what made it all extra scary if you know what the medical people really get up to, ignorance is bliss they say.
Paul
I am or was a medical person for for over 30 years and it is just the opposite. I was scared to death. ---- R
Thank you Rick. Welcome back, I hope you are recovering well.
Slow but sure. Hopefully in a couple weeks I should be back to where I was before the world disappeared for a couple weeks. That was scary when I woke up in ICU with an ET tube breathing for me. I went to bed with a slight cough and woke up that way. From all accounts I almost didn't make it. I didn't know Jack, LOL. I am glad to be here and thanks for the welcome back. ------------------------------------------------------------ Rick
So glad you're back!
Gypsy
Glad to be back Gypsy. That is not an experience I wish to repeat, gong to bed one night and waking up 6 days later with a tube in my throat and my hands tied so I couldn't pull it out. I have been in the medical profession for over 30 years and that was still very scary. My profound thanks to you and all the others who wished me well -- R
Thanks so much for two interesting offerings.
Bob
Many, many thanks!
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