"I Spent An Uneasy Night" [BLAN]

I've mentioned the podcast the Radio Detective Story Hour here a couple of times before. It's one of my favorite non work-related audio programs and it's well worth checking out, if you haven't had the opportunity already.

This week, host Jim Widner continues his series of deductive reasoners, and settles on none other than...you guessed it - the master of deductions, Sherlock Holmes. The episode in question is The Singular Affair of the Uneasy Easy Chair.

In the process of setting up the show, Jim mentions a number of writers who contributed to the medium over the years in radio and print who were members of the Baker Street Irregulars. This group includes:

• Anthony Boucher ("The Valley of Fear")
• Frederic Dannay ("The Dying Detective")
• Edith Meiser ("A Fascinating and Beautiful Woman")
• Rex Stout ("The Boscombe Valley Mystery")

I'll do a future post on Edith Meiser, because she's worth noting. Dannay and Stout were very active early members of the BSI, the former being half of the team behind Ellery Queen and the latter being the creator of Nero Wolfe. And Anthony Boucher was half of the team that wrote a number of the Rathbone/Bruce radio shows in the 1940s; the 2005 Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual, Once a Week in Baker Street, concerned their work. Sadly, the Annual is now out of print.