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The rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Set 1 [digital videodisc] / Freemantle Media Enterprises ; a Thames Television production ; produced by Robert Love and Jonathan Alwyn ; stories by R. Austin Freeman, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Guy Boothby, William Hope Hodgson, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Baroness Orczy, Clifford Ashdown, Max Pemberton ; dramatized by Philip Mackie, Julian Bond, Anthony Stevens, Stuart Hood, Alan Cooke, Bill Craig, Anthony Skene ; directed by James Goddard, Jonathan Alwyn, Kim Mills, Alan Cooke, Mike Vardy, Piers Haggard, Bill Bain.

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2009]

Private investigators -- England -- London -- Drama.

Murder -- Investigation -- England -- London -- Drama.

Criminal investigation -- England -- London -- Drama.

4 videodiscs (ca. 654 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Vol. one. Episode 1: A message from the deep sea -- Episode 2: The missing witness sensation -- Episode 3: The affair of the Avalanche Bicycle & Tyre Co. Ltd. -- Episode 4: The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds.

Vol. two. Episode 5: The horse of the invisible -- Episode 6: The case of the mirror of Portugal -- Episode 7: Madame Sara.

Vol. three. Episode 8: The case of the Dixon Torpedo -- Episode 9: The woman in the big hat -- Episode 10: The affair of the tortoise.

Vol. four. Episode 11: The Assyrian rejuvenator -- Episode 12: The ripening rubies -- Episode 13: The case of Laker, absconded.

Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.

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