CLASSIC SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES FROM
THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO AT A NEW LOW PRICE!
From 1939-1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- featuring Basil Rathbone as the high strung crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.
Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great radio plays -- written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and Denis Green -- are as fresh today as they were then.
The latest audio technology was employed to bring the best audio quality and fidelity to the original performances, which feature nostalgic war-time announcements, original commercials and radio narrations.
This special CD edition includes 12 of the series' best episodes:
The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber
The Viennese Strangler and The Notorious Canary Trainer
The April Fool's Day Adventure and
The Strange Adventure of the Uneasy Easy Chair
The Strange Case of the Demon Barber and The Mystery of the Headless Monk
The Amateur Mendicant Society and The Case of the Vanishing White Elephant
The Case of the Limping Ghost and The Girl with the Gazelle
When Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were chosen to play Holmes and Watson in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, no one realized that they would be forever linked with the characters of the great detective and his loyal friend. The immediate success of the film led to their being chosen to portray Holmes and Watson on the radio for 8 years in 213 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
