A play by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan adapted as a radio broadcast by the CBC Festival Theater.
Broadcast date 31st July 1978
Host - William Putt
Holmes - John Neville
Watson - Dan McDonald

Yes it's that well-manicured man John Neville. The image of him above is from the film A Study
In Terror. Another case that originates from Watson's seemingly bottomless battered tin dispatch box!
Watson drops a hint about it in the canon story Black Peter:
"In this memorable year '95 a curious and incongruous succession of cases had engaged his attention,
ranging from his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca - an inquiry which was
carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope.."

Dr. Alden Nowlan and Dr. Walter Learning came into possession of the papers on which they have based
their highly successful play The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca. Those papers had been entrusted
to the heirs of a certain illustrious client until such time as they might be made public, in whole
or in part, "without shaking the Christian Church to its foundations and threatening the existence
of dynasties which have flourished for a thousand years." Even today, the case involves such political,
religious and human ramifications that Drs. Nowlan and Learning have felt it their duty to withhold or
disguise certain details as, for example, the real name of Cardinal Tosca and the true cause of his
eventual death. Neither Dr. Nowlan nor Dr. Learning will entertain speculation as to the identity of
the illustrious lady for whose house they, like Holmes, have been privileged to perform some small
services, in recognition of which they have been entrusted with these priceless documents. We now
entrust you with this priceless play as it was earlier entrusted to the Actors Theatre of Louisville,
where its success was quite extraordinary. As a famous Holmesian in the audience was heard to exclaim
"Good show!"

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