Time Detectives

When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot to death on a ranch outside Dallas, it makes the news, not because of the immigrant but because of the shooter, rising political star Senator Chase. The death appears to be a hunting accident, and the well-loved senator spins the disaster artfully with his tearful press conference. But then the wife of the victim steps forward with another tale and evidence of a cover-up of epic proportions.

Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book. However, soon enough the tedium of provincial life threatens to send him packing until, that is, he finds a dead stablehand and sleepy community's world is upturned. His father is called to take proceedings into hand, but as a darker side to island life emerges, one of illegal drugs and smuggling, Rickie goes missing. Will Ngaio Marsh's stalwart detective be able to find his son in time?

A relaxing break on the Greek island of Friktos should be the perfect tonic for the amateur sleuth Kempston Hardwick. That is, until someone brutally murders one of his fellow tourists. The assembled guests can only come to one conclusion: One of them is the killer. But how do you find a murderer when everyone has a hidden agenda? Will Hardwick manage to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again?

When TV psychic Oscar Whitehouse is found murdered inside a locked room, private detective Kempston Hardwick and his friend Ellis Flint are called in to investigate. Within a matter of days, a second murder takes place in the small village of Tollinghill and a local resident claims she saw the already-dead Oscar Whitehouse at the scene, apparently alive and well. Hardwick and Flint realize they have more than just a conventional mystery on their hands. Can they uncover the secret of the Tollinghill murders before it’s too late?

Unsettling accounts of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, the weight of which carry them to an inevitable fate, are presented here by the grim-voiced Father Time. This omniscient and ominous host, portrayed by both Charles Webster and William Conrad, lends the proceedings an appropriate atmosphere of foreboding. The Clock brings you the desperate obsessions, investigations, attractions, nightmares and violence of the underhanded, the unsuspecting, and the insane.

Die Erschöpfung einer langen Nachtfahrt zwingt Professor van Dusen und Hatch, sich in einem abgelegenen kleinen Hotel einzuquartieren. Eigentlich eine gute Gelegenheit, die in letzter Zeit zwischen ihnen brodelnden Konflikte näher zu besprechen … wenn da nicht zur unpassendsten Zeit ein Mord geschehen und das Hotel von finsteren Gestalten umzingelt würde. Denn leider war das Opfer der Geldkurier eines skrupellosen Gangsterbosses und dieser gibt van Dusen nur wenige Stunden Zeit, dessen verschwundenes Geld zu finden, ehe er zu drastischen Maßnahmen greift.

Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrap heap. When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death. As Hardwick begins to unravel the mystery, he quickly comes to realize that Charlie Sparks' death throws up more peculiar questions than answers.

Somewhere between the fact and fiction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation stole the soul of Jeremy Brett, the actor who would become the embodiment of the Baker Street sleuth. The Curse of Sherlock Holmes follows Jeremy as he fights for his sanity and his life. This is the full script of the play by Dhanil Ali.

Frühling 1887: Was geht in der Nachbarschaft des jungen Hopfenhändlers Grant Munro vor, und was hat seine Frau Effie damit zu tun? Als Munro den beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe bittet, ist er völlig aufgelöst. Noch rätselhafter werden die von Munro geschilderten Vorfälle, als er auch noch von einem furchterregenden gelben Gesicht erzählt, das er aus der Ferne in einem Fenster seines Nachbarhauses gesehen hat.