The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British television show, which includes two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes aired in 1971, the first, and 1973, the second. The program presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title indicates, detectives who were literary rivals, and contemporaries, of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes took its inspiration–and title–from a number of published anthologies edited by Hugh Greene, elder brother of author Graham Greene. Hugh Greene, a former director-general of the BBC, is credited as a program creative consultant. All the stories adapted to the show are included in this ebook, with the exception of “The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist” (Episode 6) and “Anonymous Letters” (Episode 8) of the second series, a Danish and Austrian detective story non readily available in English. However, this ebook includes, as a bonus, the complete book Hagar of the Pawn Shop by Fergus Humes, from which the story for Episode 12 of Series 2 (“The Mystery of the Amber Beads”) was taken. The stories are presented here in the order in which they appeared in the TV series.Robert Barr (Eugene Valmont, French private investigator) Guy Boothby (‘gentleman thief’ Simon Carne) Ernest Bramah (blind detective Max Carrados) R. Austin Freeman (forensic detective Dr. Thorndyke; con artist Romney Pringle) Jacques Futrelle (Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine) Adalbert Goldscheider, a.k.a. ‘Balduin Groller’ (Viennese sleuth Dagobert Trostler) George Griffith (Inspector Lipinzki) William Hope Hodgson (Carnacki, the ghost hunter) Fergusson Wright Hume (Hagar Stanley, a.k.a. Hagar of the Pawnshop, the Gypsy detective) C. J. Cutliffe Hyne (ship's purser Mr. Horrocks) William Le Queux (Duckworth Drew of the Secret Service) L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace (trade investigator Dixon Druce) Arthur Morrison (Horace Dorrington, crooked private detective; Martin Hewitt; Jonathan Pride) E. Phillips Oppenheim (John Laxworthy, reformed crook) The Baroness Orczy (Polly Burton from The Old Man in the Corner stories; Lady Molly of Scotland Yard) Max Pemberton (professional jeweler Bernard Sutton) Baron Palle Rosenkrantz (Lieutenant Hoist, Danish police detective) CONTENTS   SERIES 1 (SEPTEMBER 20 - DECEMBER 9, 1971) EPISODE 01 - A MESSAGE FROM THE DEEP SEA (DR. THORNDYKE) EPISODE 02 - THE MISSING WITNESS SENSATION (MAX CARRADOS) EPISODE 03 - THE AFFAIR OF THE AVALANCHE BICYCLE &amp; TYRE CO. LTD. (HORACE DORRINGTON) EPISODE 04 - THE DUCHESS OF WILTSHIRE'S DIAMONDS (SIMON CARNE) EPISODE 05 - THE HORSE OF THE INVISIBLE (CARNACKI) EPISODE 06 - THE CASE OF "THE MIRROR OF PORTUGAL" (HORACE DORRINGTON) EPISODE 07 - MADAME SARA (DIXON DRUCE) EPISODE 08 - THE CASE OF THE DIXON TORPEDO (MARTIN HEWITT) EPISODE 09 - THE WOMAN IN THE BIG HAT (LADY MOLLY) EPISODE 10 - THE AFFAIR OF THE TORTOISE (MARTIN HEWITT) EPISODE 11 - THE ASSYRIAN REJUVENATOR (ROMNEY PRINGLE) EPISODE 12 - THE RIPENING RUBIES (BERNARD SUTTON) EPISODE 13 - THE CASE OF LAKER, ABSCONDED (MARTIN HEWITT) SERIES 2 (JANUARY 29 - MAY 7, 1973) EPISODE 01 - THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY (POLLY BURTON) EPISODE 02 - FIVE HUNDRED CARATS (INSPECTOR LIPINZKI) EPISODE 03 - CELL 13 (PROFESSOR VAN DUSEN) EPISODE 04 - THE SECRET OF THE "MAGNIFIQUE" (JOHN LAXWORTHY) EPISODE 05 - THE ABSENT-MINDED COTERIE (EUGENE VALMONT) ROOM (MR. HORROCKS)EPISODE 07 - THE SUPERFLUOUS FINGER (PROFESSOR VAN DUSEN) EPISODE 09 - THE MOABITE CYPHER (DR. THORNDYKE) EPISODE 10 - THE SECRET OF THE FOX HUNTER (DUCKWORTH [WILLIAM] DREW) EPISODE 11 - THE LOOTING OF THE SPECIE EPISODE 12 - THE MYSTERY OF THE AMBER BEADS (HAGAR) EPISODE 13 - THE MISSING QCS (CHARLES DALLAS) BONUS BOOK HAGAR OF THE PAWN SHOP BY FERGUS HUME

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