The Moabite Cipher by R Austin Freeman | A Dr Thorndyke Mystery | read by Greg Wagland
Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio This is a bit of a roller coaster, this tale, that Freeman takes us on. A Russian Archduke is visiting London. Anarchists are on the prowl. Who is behind the scrap of paper with a Moabite scrawl? Will all the Professor's semitic language studies be of any use to him? Will Moakie and the gang thrive? Will Polton get a line or two? Why don't we hear much about anarchy anymore? It's been surgically removed from the lexicon of discontent. By whom? All the best to you, listeners in the Northern Hemisphere, as the nights draw in. Pour yourself a sweet, sweet Mackeson or maybe an Ovaltine, draw the curtains and enter. if you will, the occasionally implausible world of Dr. Thorndyke. Read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio. This painting is by Lawrence Alma-Tadema and called The Finding of Moses. I read that it was sold in the 1950s for the value of its frame. Funny old world, ain't it?
