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Five Hundred Carats

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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Five Hundred Carats

Season 2 Episode 2 | 51m 2s | CC

A 500-carat diamond can blind a man to his responsibility and dazzle a man to theft, lust and murder. George Griffith’s Inspector Lipinsky must pursue the criminal and solve the crime in period South Africa.

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