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This episode features Dr Thorndyke, played by John Neville, who is first a medical man and second a solver of mysteries. A young girl has been murdered in her boarding house and the solution looks obvious - but is it?

Neville plays the sleuth with aplomb and this is a strong opening episode. The character is arrogant, capable, and likable - and of course his intelligence makes his police colleagues and/or adversaries look like idiots!

A Message from the Deep Sea

Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.

The Missing Witness Sensation

Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.

The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.

Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.

The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds

Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.

The Horse of the Invisible

Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.

The Case of the Mirror of Portugal

Madame Sara

Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.

The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.

The Woman in the Big Hat

Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.

The Affair of the Tortoise

Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.

The Assyrian Rejuvenator

Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.

The Ripening Rubies

Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.

The Case of Laker, Absconded

Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.

The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

Five Hundred Carats

Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up he is given the chance to prove that he can escape by the power of his mind alone.

Cell 13

Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.

The Secret of the Manifique

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

The Absent-Minded Coterie

Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.

The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist

Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.

The Superfluous Finger

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.

Anonymous Letters

Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.

The Moabite Cypher

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

The Secret of the Foxhunter

Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.

The Missing Q.C's

Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.

The Looting of the Species Room

Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.

The Mystery of the Amber Beads

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

The Best Seasons of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Best Seasons of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Season 1

Season 2