Bibliograph

Dr Gideon Fell: collected cases, written by John Dickson Carr ; adapted by Peter Ling ; performed by Donald Sinden, John Hartley [and others]

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Dr Gideon Fell: collected cases, written by John Dickson Carr ; adapted by Peter Ling ; performed by Donald Sinden, John Hartley [and others]

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

drama

Main title

Dr Gideon Fell: collected cases

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Responsibility statement

written by John Dickson Carr ; adapted by Peter Ling ; performed by Donald Sinden, John Hartley [and others]

Summary

Donald Sinden stars as eccentric amateur sleuth Gideon Fell in these two full-cast BBC radio dramatisations of stories by John Dickson Carr. One of the preeminent detectives of crime fiction's golden age, Dr Gideon Fell is stout, jovial and fond of beer and band music. However, he also possesses a razor-sharp mind and extraordinary powers of deduction, which are frequently put to the test as he is called upon to solve seemingly impossible crimes. Created by the master of the locked-room mystery, John Dickson Carr, Dr Fell appeared in 23 novels, several short stories and plays and numerous radio adaptations. These two dramas, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997, see him embroiled in two inexplicable cases that have the police baffled. In The Hollow Man, two murders are committed by someone who appears to be both invisible and lighter than air, while in The House in Gallows Lane, the peaceful English countryside of 1936 is disrupted by an alarming fortune-teller, and a mysterious death

Table Of Contents

The Hollow Man -- The House in Gallows Lane

Target audience

adult

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Doctor Gideon Fell

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