The third volume of dramatisations of stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr. Watson.
The Three Students In this ‘small but instructive affair’ Holmes must use some sharp detective work to uncover who cheated the Fortescue scholarship. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 September 1993.
The Golden Pince-Nez Holmes is called in to find out who murdered the secretary of an invalid professor. His only clues are a pair of pince-nez and a dying man’s last words: ‘It was she.’ First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 22 September 1993.
The Missing Three-Quarter On the eve of the Oxford and Cambridge rugby football match, star three-quarter Godfrey Staunton disappears and it’s up to Holmes to find him. But will he be in time? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 29 September 1993.
The Abbey Grange Who killed Sir Eustace Brackenstall, one of the richest (and drunkest) men in Kent? Holmes finds the answer in the bottom of a bottle of wine. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 October 1993.
Bert 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.