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Adaptations of short stories by detective stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporaries.
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Contents indexed selectively. Only episodes based on works by Australian authors are individually indexed on AustLit.
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1.04form y
The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
United Kingdom (UK)
:
Thames Television
ITV
,
1971
9356431
1971
single work
film/TV
crime
An adaptation of the first chapter of Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers, in which Simon Carne first robs the aristocracy (in this case, the Duchess of Wiltshire) and then impersonates a detective investigating the crime.
United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television ITV , 1971 -
2.12form y
The Mystery of the Amber Beads
United Kingdom (UK)
:
Thames Television
ITV
,
1973
9356572
1973
single work
film/TV
detective
Adaptation of the third chapter of Hume's work, 'The Second Customer and the Amber Beads'.
When a rich widow is strangled, her amber beads end up in a pawnshop run by a young Romani woman, Hagar, who has a talent for solving her customers' mysteries.
United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television ITV , 1973
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