The great detective battles to solve the case with the aid of a single dumb-bell and Dr Watson's umbrella...

Starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.

The conclusion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1915 novel about the legendary Sherlock Holmes.

Dramatised by Bert Coules.

Sherlock Holmes ...... Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson ...... Michael Williams
John McMurdo ...... Iain Glen
Inspector Alec MacDonald ...... Mark Bonner
White Mason ...... Timothy Bateson
Jack McGinty ...... Constantine Gregory
Ettie Shafter ...... Amanda Gordon
Ted Baldwin ...... Stephen Critchlow
Ivy Douglas ...... Becky Hindley
Cecil Barker ...... Gavin Muir
Narrator ...... Ronald Pickup

Pianist: Michael Hasiam
Violinist: Abigail Young.

Director: Enyd Williams.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997. Show less