A. E. W. Mason

Richard Pasco

Moir Leslie

Benedick Blythe

Ian Masters

Andrew Sachs

Nicholas Rowe

Fiona Clarke

Deborah Makepeace

Full Cast

Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramatisations

BBC dramatisations of two classic detective novels featuring Inspector Gabriel Hanaud of the Paris Sûreté 
 
The brilliant creation of British author A.E.W. Mason, Inspector Hanaud has been hailed as ‘the first major fiction police detective of the Twentieth Century’, and was one of the inspirations for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. In these engaging whodunits, France’s cleverest investigator is tasked with proving the innocence of two young women, both accused of murder. 
 
At the Villa Rose – Madame Dauvray is found strangled at her villa, her priceless jewellery stolen. All the evidence points to her English companion Celia Harland, who has since disappeared. Holidaying in Aix-les Bains, Inspector Hanaud is approached by her fiancé Harry, who persuades him to take up the case…First published in 1910, this gripping mystery was the first outing for Inspector Hanaud, played here by Andrew Sachs, with Nicholas Rowe as Harry and Fiona Clarke as Celia. 
 
The House of the Arrow – When a wealthy widow dies suddenly, the finger of suspicion points at her adopted daughter, Betty Harlowe. Her English lawyer, Frobisher, calls in Inspector Hanaud, who has come to Dijon to investigate a spate of poison-pen letters. Can he unravel the mystery surrounding the House of the Arrow? Richard Pasco stars as Hanaud in this adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s 1924 thriller, alongside Benedick Blythe, Moir Leslie and Deborah Makepeace. 
 
 
At the Villa Rose 
Hanaud – Andrew Sachs 
Ricardo – Ian Masters 
Wethermill – Nicholas Rowe 
Celia – Fiona Clarke 
Madame Dauvray/Marthe/Jeanne – Janet Whiteside 
Helene Vauquiers/Waitress – Alice Arnold 
Perrichet/Lemerre – Stephen Critchlow 
Servattaz/Besnard – Sean Baker 
Adele – Becky Hindley 
Dramatised by David Benedictus 
Directed by Marion Nancarrow 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 30 October 1999 
 
The House of the Arrow 
Inspector Hanaud – Richard Pasco 
Jim Frobisher – Benedick Blythe 
Betty Harlowe – Moir Leslie 
Ann Upcott – Deborah Makepeace 
Francine Rollard – Carole Boyd 
Boris Waberski/Girardot – Alfredo Michelsen 
Carlos Espinosa/Gaston – Clive Panto 
Maurice Thevenet – Mark Jones 
Adapted by Alan Downer 
Directed by Christopher Venning 
Music composed and directed by Terence Allbright 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4 February 1984 
 
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A. E. W. Mason

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