Category Archives: Audio Review

HE WHO WHISPERS (1946) by John Dickson Carr

Posted on 6 February 2015 by

This classic Golden Age detective story features a seemingly impossible murder and came top of the 2014 John Dickson Carr poll, somewhat to my surprise. I hadn’t read it in a while (well, try 30 years actually, and only in … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Vintage Mystery Challenge, Audio Review, England, Five Star review, France, Gideon Fell, John Dickson Carr, Locked Room Mystery, London | 62 Comments

THE JUDGEMENT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 14 December 2014 by

Sherlock Holmes had many secrets. This is the greatest of them. This collection of four new audio adventures by Jonathan Barnes follows on from his very conspicuous success with The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner and The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes for Big Finish … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Barnes, London, Sherlock Holmes | 28 Comments

Vienna – series 1

Posted on 4 March 2014 by

This CD box (also available as a download) comprises three science fiction adventures that follow on from The Memory Box, featuring glamorous bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori, played by the equally glam Chase Masterson. The following review is offered as part … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Morris, Nev Fountain, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged | 16 Comments

THE ORDEALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 14 January 2014 by

This collection of four new audio adventures follows the threads of a single case across 40 years in the career of Conan Doyle’s consulting detective. Following on from the conspicuous success of The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, Jonathan Barnes is again … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Barnes, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Sussex | 26 Comments

THE AXEMAN COMETH by Nev Fountain

Posted on 18 June 2013 by

What do you mean you’ve never heard of cult sci-fi series Vixens from the Void – what about its star, the sultry Vanity Mycroft –  no? Well, that’s understandable because they only exist in the imagination of Nev Fountain, serving … Continue reading →

Posted in Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Audio Review, Big Finish, Doctor Who, Film Noir, Mervyn Stone, Nev Fountain, Poirot | 23 Comments

Vienna: The Memory Box

Posted on 4 June 2013 by

Vienna Salvatori – a glamorous bounty hunter played by the equally glam Chase Masterson – first appeared in last year’s Doctor Who audio The Shadow Heart opposite Sylvester McCoy. She has now been spun off into this pilot for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Morris, Philip K. Dick | Tagged | 11 Comments

The Age of Revolution

Posted on 2 April 2013 by

Corks – it’s the return of theatre impresario Henry Gordon Jago and pathologist Professor George Litefoot, those two fruity Victorian investigators played to perfection by Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter. They are back for another quartet of audio adventures, courtesy … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, Jonathan Morris, London, Scene of the crime, Steampunk | 12 Comments