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Sexton Blake

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Sexton Blake is a fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. [1]

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A. J. Raffles

Arthur J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung, who, between 1898 and 1909, wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about him and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.

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Andrew Sumner

Andrew Sumner is a British movie journalist, TV presenter and company director.

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Arthur Wontner

Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 – 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937.

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Barry Letts

Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a town square in Mayfair in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster.

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Bloodhound

The Bloodhound is a large scent hound, originally bred for hunting deer, wild boar and, since the Middle Ages, for tracking people.

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Brian Lawrence

Brian Michael Lawrence (born May 14, 1976) is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher.

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Charles Morgan (actor)

Charles Morgan (23 March 1909 – 11 March 1994) was a Welsh actor.

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Clement Freud

Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 192415 April 2009) was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.

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David Farrar (actor)

David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor.

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David Quantick

David Quantick (born 14 May 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is an English freelance journalist, radio/screen writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy.

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De Havilland Moth

The de Havilland Moths were a series of light aircraft, sports planes and military trainers designed by Geoffrey de Havilland.

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Detective Weekly

Detective Weekly was a British story paper of the 1930s.

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Dinendra Kumar Roy

Dinendra Kumar Roy (26 August 1869 - 27 June 1943) was a Bengali novelist and editor.

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Dirk Maggs

Dirk Maggs, a freelance writer and director working across all media, is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved radio drama into "Audio Movies," a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology.

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E. W. Hornung

Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London.

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Edwy Searles Brooks

Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 - 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross.

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Elric of Melniboné

Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternate Earth.

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Eric Lander

Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957), a mathematician and geneticist, is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Eric Parker (illustrator)

Eric Robert Parker (7 September 1898 – 21 March 1974) was a prolific British illustrator and comics artist best known for illustrating the adventures of Sexton Blake in various periodicals.

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Ernest Clark

Ernest Clark (12 February 1912 in London – 11 November 1994) was a British actor of stage, television and film.

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Francis Durbridge

Francis Henry Durbridge (25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English playwright and author.

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Geoffrey Toone

Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910 – 1 June 2005) was an English character actor and former matinee idol, born in Ireland.

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George Curzon (actor)

Commander Chambré George William Penn Curzon (18 October 1898 – 7 May 1976), known as George Curzon, was a Royal Navy Commander, actor, and father of the present Earl Howe.

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Gerald Verner

Gerald Verner (1897–1980) was a writer of thrillers, writing wrote more than 120 novels translated into over 35 languages.

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Halfpenny Marvel

The Halfpenny Marvel was a story paper of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Heather Chasen

Heather Jean Chasen (born 20 July 1927) is an English actress.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jack Trevor Story

Jack Trevor Story (30 March 1917 – 5 December 1991) was a British novelist, publishing prolifically from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Jeremy Clyde

Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde (born 22 March 1941) is an English actor and musician.

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John Creasey

John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.

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June Whitfield

Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress.

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Knockout (UK comics)

Knockout may refer to one of two British comics.

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Langhorn Burton

Langhorn Burton (25 December 1880 – 6 December 1949) was a British film actor.

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Laurence Payne

Laurence Stanley Payne (5 June 1919 – 23 February 2009) was an English actor and novelist.

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Leonard Sachs

Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-British actor.

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List of Rolls-Royce motor cars

This is a list of Rolls-Royce branded motor cars and includes vehicles manufactured by.

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Lovers (stock characters)

Lovers are stock characters whose efforts to get together, despite the blocking effect of other characters, constitute the plot of the story.

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Mark Hodder

Mark Hodder is an English steampunk author, since 2008 living in Spain.

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Meet Sexton Blake

Meet Sexton Blake is a 1945 British supporting feature drama film directed by John Harlow, and starring David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Dennis Arundell, and John Varley.

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Meredith Edwards (actor)

Gwilym Meredith Edwards (10 June 1917 – 8 February 1999) was a Welsh character actor and writer.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

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Mickey Brantford

Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager.

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Mil Millington

Robert "Mil" Millington is a British author of humorous books.

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Monsieur Zenith

Monsieur Zenith the Albino is an ambiguous villain created by writer Anthony Skene for the "Sexton Blake" series of detective pulp fiction.

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Murder at Site 3

Murder at Site 3 is a Hammer movie from 1958, featuring the character of Sexton Blake.

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Obverse Books

Obverse Books is a British publisher initially known for publishing books relating to the character Iris Wildthyme, and for the Black Archive series of critical books on Doctor Who.

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Pavilion Theatre, Torquay

The Pavilion Theatre was a theatre in Torquay, Devon, England.

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Phil Davis (actor)

Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, and director.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Roger Tucker

Roger Tucker (born 13 May 1945) is a British television and film director.

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School story

The school story is a fiction genre centering on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor

Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor is a 1935 British mystery film directed by George A. Cooper and starring George Curzon, Henry Oscar and Tony Sympson.

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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror is a 1938 British crime film directed by George King and starring George Curzon, Tod Slaughter and Greta Gynt.

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Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle

Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle is a 1935 British crime film directed by Alex Bryce and starring George Curzon as Sexton Blake.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Simon Jones (actor)

Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor.

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Simon Raven

Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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The Echo Murders

The Echo Murders is a 1945 British thriller film directed by John Harlow and starring David Farrar and Dennis Price.

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The Metatemporal Detective

The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of short fiction by the prolific award-winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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TI Media

TI Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK), on the IPC Media website is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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Tod Slaughter

Tod Slaughter (born Norman Carter Slaughter, 19 March 1885 – 19 February 1956) was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas.

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Tony Sympson

Tony Sympson (10 July 1906 – 30 March 1983) was a British actor.

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Tornado (comics)

Tornado was a short-lived weekly British comic magazine published for 22 issues by IPC Magazines between March 1979 and August 1979.

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Union Jack (magazine)

The Union Jack was a story paper of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Valiant (comics)

Valiant was a British boys adventure comics anthology which ran from 1962 to 1976.

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William Franklyn

William Leo Franklyn (22 September 1925 – 31 October 2006) was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh...

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake

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