Ralph Standing has just passed away, leaving behind his wife and son Paul. It had been a happy marriage, Mrs Standing is perplexed to receive a letter from two book dealers, claiming Ralph owes them a great deal of money, unpaid fees for curious books. Paul calls into the book shop to challenge the two book dealers about the transactions, he discovers that they were telephone orders.
I love the tone of this episode, it's so grim and moody, the death at the start sets the tone, it's overly sombre. The scam is a good one, I wonder if it has been done by anyone.
Everyone in it performs particularly well, Richard Pearson and David Webb make a brilliant double act, Evelyn Laye and Hugh Fraser are both fantastic too, Fraser is deadpan from start to finish, completely at odds to the lovable Arthur Hastings we'd come to love.
It's a very fine episode, it's emotionally engaging somehow, even though it's very short each character you feel something for, be it pity or anger. The ending is just brilliant.
An out an out classic, even if Hugh Fraser does have that huge moustache! 8/10
I love the tone of this episode, it's so grim and moody, the death at the start sets the tone, it's overly sombre. The scam is a good one, I wonder if it has been done by anyone.
Everyone in it performs particularly well, Richard Pearson and David Webb make a brilliant double act, Evelyn Laye and Hugh Fraser are both fantastic too, Fraser is deadpan from start to finish, completely at odds to the lovable Arthur Hastings we'd come to love.
It's a very fine episode, it's emotionally engaging somehow, even though it's very short each character you feel something for, be it pity or anger. The ending is just brilliant.
An out an out classic, even if Hugh Fraser does have that huge moustache! 8/10