Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalg Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you

Agatha Christie's The Siddifert Mystery. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor,

six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a

seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message. Captain Trevelyan,

dead, murder. Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate

Captain Trevelyan.

Unfortunately, his home is six miles away with snow dress blocking the roads. Someone will have to make the journey on foot.

So sit back and relax. I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening. The Citerford Mystery by Agatha Christie,

dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell,

with Geoffrey Whitehead as Inspector Naracott.

Part 1, The Message.

The time is 1931, the place, Dartmoor. The place, Dartmoor. Good afternoon, Mr. Burgess.

Oh, Major Burnaby. Good afternoon, sir. I'm just trying to clear a path to the gate. You're laboring in vain, I'm afraid. Look at the sky. There'll be another fall of snow before long. You're surely not going down to Ex-Hampton. It's weather. You'll never get through. I rag way pretty near cut off already. Oh, no, I...

I've answered Trevelyan will hardly expect me today.

I've been invited to Sitterford House.

They'll be getting their first real taste of English weather there.

I never could understand why they should come all the way from South Africa

to freeze to death in the middle of Dharmore.

That's just what Trevelyan said himself, Mrs. Curtis.

But they were prepared to pay good money to rent the house from him,

and he's as happy as a sandboy sitting out the winter in that snug little place in Exhampton.

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