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.
The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
Season 1 Episode 8 | 50m 2s | CC
Ronald Hynes stars as private investigator Jonathan Pryde in this complex tale of Victorian espionage involving secret weapons and forgery on a grand scale. When Pryde is engaged by the Imperial Russian Embassy to look into forged currency, the Admiralty has another task for Pryde.
