"Toff" is British English slang for an ostentatiously idle young man of the upper classes, hence the name. In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth.[1
Read more…The Wooden Overcoat Pamela Branch's comic murder mystery set in London in 1951, adapted by Mark Gatiss. Much to his surprise, Benji Cann has got away with murder. He gravitates to the Asterisk Club, a place of refuge for those who have strayed beyo
Read more…Pocket City Blues by Charles Tidler was part of the CBC Mystery Project (4 eps)
Read more…THE DISAPPEARANCE
by Peter Whalley
A compelling psychological thriller with fraudulent identity at its heart.
Alice moves into a converted Victorian house and rents the top floor. The
landlord lives below. Both tenant and landlord are not who they s
Chopin's Piano by David Zane Mairowitz Piano played by Mary Nash Directed by Richard Wortley Broadcast Tuesday 24th May 1988, Radio 3 Duration 1hr 40min Professor Wyatt is called to Majorca after Professor Newman, a colleague who had been doing fie
Read more…The Windsor Jewels
Robin Glendinning's black comedy tells the story of a real mystery.
In 1946, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and his wife (formerly
Wallis Simpson) paid a visit to Britain, hoping to secure a government job
for the Duke an
Dramatisation of Patrick Hamilton's novels concerning a charming swindler/murderer.
"Red Sands Investigations" is a full-cast original feature in four parts... ‘Red Sands Investigations’ starts out with its private investigator dead, perhaps through being a little too soft-boiled. Instead, the mystery of his death and other peculiar
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The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
Dramatisation of the novel by Denise Mina, set in Glasgow in 1984. Plucky young journalist Paddy Meehan investigates the death of a lawyer in one of the city's most exclusive suburbs.
Paddy Meehan worked the night shift
The Weather for Murder by Philip Levene With Marie Ney and Barbara Couper 60 minutes Broadcast 18 April 1962 on the Light Programme repeated 15 Sept 1962, 24 June 1963, and 28 Dec 1966 Mysterious circumstances surround a deadly fire that's been dec
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Six Suspects
by Vikas Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog Millionaire
Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon
Produced by John Dryden
Broadcast Monday 4 to Friday 15 January 2010 (Woman's Hour Drama)
160/44; 160 MB total; sound quality exc
Blackfriars Bridge By Anthony Horowitz. Read by Robert Bathurst. from Afternoon Reading: Scene of the Crime Broadcasts Fri 8 Feb 2008 Wed 23 Dec 2009 Comic tale of the detailed planning of the perfect crime. 160/44; 14.5 MB; sound quality excelle
Read more…SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES, by Dornford Yates, dram. Michelene Wandor. R4 1430 15 May 2004; Saturday play. With Honor Blackman, William Chandos, Tim Frances, Jessica Lloyd, Robert Whelan, Jane Collingwood, Harry Myers. Director- Chris Wallis. A Watershed
Read more…As a young police officer, he was nearly killed when a drunk whom he and his partner were arresting stabbed him with a butcher's knife. Wallander was once married, but his wife Mona left him and he has since had a difficult relationship with his only
Read more…The Last Castrato by Anthony George Directed by Nigel Bryant. Broadcast 4th April 1991 - Afternoon Play A psychic's visions draw an opera-obsessed desk sergeant into the search for a missing young singer. With John Duttine as Jack, Kathryn Hurlbut
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