Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #5 by Marvin Kaye

How do you convince a bunch of bad guys that not even Etta doesn’t know what that is? It’s up to Foggy to find her and keep her safe until he can figure out how to neutralize the danger to Etta permanently. It seems Etta has perfect memory and knows something she shouldn’t. Nelson Roan demands that Child Protective Services agent Foggy Moscowitz find his 11-year-old daughter Etta. Setting: Florida.įirst Sentence: It doesn’t take long to wake up when there’s a gun in your face. I wish that my American ears were more used to British accents (no subtitles on the video I saw), but I picked up more than enough to tell you that I really enjoyed this one. It is also remarkable how well-cast and effective the actors in this 60 minute play are, every single one of them, big parts or small. The resulting story has both an abundance of close-up dialogue as well as intense action - not of cars roaring up and down city streets and isolated country roads, as most American cop and PI shows were wont to do - but intense person-on-person action, which is down to earth and certainly a whole lot more, well, personal. and he doesn’t fancy the Flying Squad having any idea that something is going on. The brighter of the two thieves has the clever idea of selling the photos to the subject of Regan’s observations, a highly-connected gangster who has some sort of hush-hush operation about the get underway.

(He had, unfortunately left the car unlocked.) A car that Regan has borrowed from a sleep-in girl friend to do some surveillance work for the day is stolen, along with his camera and several photos he’d already taken. I’m not sure why this first episode is titled “Ringer,” but it’s a good one. John Thaw ( Inspector Morse) played Detective Inspector Jack Regan, while Dennis Waterman ( New Tricks) was his second in command, Detective Sergeant George Carter. It was on British TV for four seasons, followed by three theatrical movies. “The Sweeney” is Cockney slang for London’s Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police (short for Sweeney Todd, a rhyming version of ‘Flying Squad’). Writers: Trevor Preston, Ian Kennedy Martin. Guest Cast: Ian Hendry, Brian Blessed, Jill Townsend. John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan. THE SWEENEY “Ringer.” ITV, Thames Television.

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #5 by Marvin Kaye