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Bert Coules' Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio, 1989-1998) #17
The Valley of Fear
What is the connection between a corpse with a missing face and a ruthless secret society which once terrorised a desolate region of the United States? With the aid of a local guidebook, a missing dumb-bell and Dr Watson's umbrella, Holmes unravels a tangled web which stretches over fifteen years and two continents; and in the centre of that web lurks the sinister presence of the most brilliant criminal mind in all England - Professor James Moriarty.
Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in this adventure, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.
Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in this adventure, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.
2 pages, Audio CD
Published January 1, 2004
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Bert Coules
53 books12 followersBert Coules is an English writer, and dramatist, who has produced a number of adaptations and original works. He works mainly in radio drama but also writes for TV and the stage.
Coules specializes in mystery and science fiction audio and radio drama, and has written a number of adaptations, most notably as the head writer of the Sherlock Holmes radio series (1989–1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson (the first time the entire canon had been adapted with the same two lead actors throughout). He also wrote original Sherlock Holmes scripts for the following BBC radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each based on a reference from the original stories. These were first broadcast between 2002 and 2010, and starred Merrison and Andrew Sachs as Watson, following Michael Williams' death in 2001.
He has also written adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, and of works by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Isaac Asimov and other best-selling genre authors.
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Coules specializes in mystery and science fiction audio and radio drama, and has written a number of adaptations, most notably as the head writer of the Sherlock Holmes radio series (1989–1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson (the first time the entire canon had been adapted with the same two lead actors throughout). He also wrote original Sherlock Holmes scripts for the following BBC radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each based on a reference from the original stories. These were first broadcast between 2002 and 2010, and starred Merrison and Andrew Sachs as Watson, following Michael Williams' death in 2001.
He has also written adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, and of works by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Isaac Asimov and other best-selling genre authors.
[with thanks to Wikipedia]
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October 20, 2014
BBC full cast Radio dramatization with Clive Merrison and Michael Williams as Sherlock and Watson.
Unlike the novel which is in two distinct halves, this opts to tell the two strands simultaneously which is an interesting take on the narrative. So we switch back and forth between Holmes/Watson solving the locked room style murder of Jack Douglas in England and the flashback narrative of the brutal Scowrers in America.
This is an excellent adaptation that kept my interest throughout. Because of the way in which its told, the pace never flags and Holmes is present throughout rather than in the novel where he is completely absent for half of it.
A must for Holmes fans.
Unlike the novel which is in two distinct halves, this opts to tell the two strands simultaneously which is an interesting take on the narrative. So we switch back and forth between Holmes/Watson solving the locked room style murder of Jack Douglas in England and the flashback narrative of the brutal Scowrers in America.
This is an excellent adaptation that kept my interest throughout. Because of the way in which its told, the pace never flags and Holmes is present throughout rather than in the novel where he is completely absent for half of it.
A must for Holmes fans.
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