ELTC’s popular vintage-radio style production returns with live sound effects and commercials, now with two great detectives! "Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Copper Beeches" about a governess in peril, and "Nick Carter and the Strange Dr. Devolo," in which Manhattan millionaires are missing. Cast once more includes Rob LeMaire, operating sound effects and performing, Lee O'Connor as Holmes and Fred Velde as Watson, among the cast of six.
While Sherlock Holmes was solving crimes in England, Nick Carter was busy in Manhattan. Carter first appeared as the hero in a serialized novel, "The Old Detective’s Pupil," in the “New York Weekly” in 1886 – a year before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes’ first caper, "A Study in Scarlet." In 1930, the Sherlock Holmes radio series began with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and in 1943, the Nick Carter series was launched with "The Strange Dr. Devolo." While "Copper Beeches" is not the original script by Edith Meiser (this one is adapted by Gayle Stahlhuth), "The Strange Dr. Devolo" IS the original script.
Numerous Nick Carter novels were written by a variety of people through 1990, with Nick changing with the times. In 1964, the series changed from “Nick Carter: Master Detective” to “Nick Carter: Killmaster” to compete with James Bond and other international super spies. The Nick Carter Detective character, copyright, and trademarks are owned by Conde Nast. Used with permission.
