#66 And Then There Were None (BBC)

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe.

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive.

Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a different manner in keeping with the nursery rhyme, 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'. As they are picked off one by one, who could possibly be responsible?

The killers are forced to turn detective so they can find the unknown murderer, but one by one they become victims...

Billed as 'the famous detective story without a detective', 'And Then There Were None' is one of Agatha Christie's darkest and most enduring tales.

http://www.amazon.com/Then-There-Were-None-Dramatisation/dp/1408467607

#65 The Long Goodbye - Philip Marlowe (BBC)

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in a powerful great BBC full-cast dramatization of Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel. The first time Marlowe sets eyes on Terry Lennox, he is lying drunk in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. The next time, he's on Skid Row. For reasons unknown Marlowe takes a liking to Lennox deciding he's a nice guy who's had a hard life. His white hair and scarred face testify to that fact. Though it could be marriage to Sylvia Lennox has taken its toll and turned him prematurely grey? Beautiful and rich, she plays the field with no consideration for the commitment that wedlock is supposed to have.. Lennox says he has a job in Las Vegas lined up so Marlowe helps him out providing him with the cost of the ticket. Two weeks later, Marlowe gets the money back along with a note from Lennox saying he and Sylvia are starting a second honeymoon. But the honeymoon turns sour and the dame ends up dead. Lennox winds up on Marlowe's doorstep in big trouble needing to get away in a hurry. Against his better judgment Marlowe agrees to sneak Lennox out of the country by taking him to Tijuana. Shortly after returning from Mexico, the cops arrive, and Marlowe finds himself in the hoosegow, suspected of helping Sylvia's killer escape. But that's not the end of his problems, not by a long shot.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Goodbye-BBC-Audio/dp/1408427680

#63 Cordially Invited to Meet Death - Nero Wolfe (CBC)

Based on a story by Rex Stout; Adapted by Ron Hartman; Performed by a full cast.

Bess Huddleston, an upper-class party planner, consults Nero Wolfe when she becomes the object of an anonymous-letter campaign aimed at destroying her business. Sent by Wolfe to investigate, Archie discovers that Miss Huddleston is, in her own way, just as eccentric as his employer; the long-suffering Archie hurts himself tripping over an alligator and then is forced to play tag with a pet chimpanzee. Things take a more sinister turn when a highly suspicious death occurs shortly after Archie's visit.
    

Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Starring Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe. Don Francks as Archie Goodwin. 

Also in the cast: Cec Linder, Frank Perry, Alfie Scott

Music by: Don Gillis

#56 Man Alive - Nero Wolfe (CBC)

 

Based on a story by Rex Stout; Adapted by Ron Hartman; Performed by a full cast.

An heiress comes to Nero Wolfe for help when she discovers that the uncle she believed had committed suicide a year ago is still alive. As Wolfe takes the case the uncle turns up murdered.

Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Starring Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe. Don Francks as Archie Goodwin. 

Also in the cast: Cec Linder, Frank Perry, Alfie Scott

Special Guest Stars: Lynn Griffin, Neil Monroe, Sandy Webster, August Shellenburg

Music by: Don Gillis

#55 Lady in the Lake - Philip Marlowe (BBC)

Another great production from BBC Radio 4. This time a full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Derace Kingsley’s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he’s denying nothing – on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe’s on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake.

http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Lake-BBC-Dramatization/dp/1602837848 

#17 Disguise For Murder - A Nero Wolfe Mystery (CBC)

Nero Wolfe - Disguise For Murder is the first in a 13 episode series produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).  In 1982, Canadian actor, producer, and writer Mavor Moore starred as Nero Wolfe while Don Francks portrayed Archie Goodwin, and Cec Linder played Inspector Cramer. Disguise For Murder is a well produced introduction into the the world of Rex Stout's beer drinking, orchid loving, chair-bound genius detective Nero Wolfe.

During a flower exhibition at Wolfe's brownstone, a tipsy young woman who confides to Archie that she's recognized a murderer at the show is murdered on premises shortly thereafter.