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Anonymous Letters

This series brings to life the many detectives of late Victorian London who were "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," from R. Austin Freeman’s brilliant forensic expert Dr. John Thorndyke to Arthur Morrison’s notorious villain, private inquiry agent Horace Dorrington, William Hope Hodgson’s world-famous ghost hunter Carnacki and Baroness Orczy’s detective Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.

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Anonymous Letters

Season 2 Episode 8 | 51m 24s | CC

Who is the author of the series of vile anonymous letters received by the Countess Nadja, the wife of the Archduke Othmar? Against the sparkling background of high-society Vienna at the turn of the century, Balduin Groller’s Dagobert Trostler must find the solution, even if it gives him little satisfaction.

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