Quiz-Crime Number 1
Date: 1943
Director: Ronald Haines
Production Company: British Foundation Pictures
Stars: Carol O'Connor
Location(s): Buckinghamshire
Region(s): South East M-Q
Storyline:
An observational test for amateur detectives which includes ‘The Crooked Billet Murder’ and ‘Back Stage Murder’.
Additional Information:
Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
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In this short featurette, Detective Inspector Frost outlines the details of two cases to the audience who he expects to have fancied themselves as amateur detectives at some point. The bus stop flag carries identification number 16357.
- Capture 2
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Passengers read detective novels while waiting for their bus.
- Capture 3
- 31 Dec 2024
The audience are asked to try out their powers of observation on the Detective Inspector's last assignment . . . 'The Crooked Billet Murder' case. The stylised sign looks genuine but . . . .
Antony Blair found that The Crooked Billet is only half a mile from The Black Horse, but this sign has more character!
- Capture 4
- 31 Dec 2024
Examining Valentine Auson's body which was found on a lane running between the station at Hadham and the Crooked Billet, Detective Inspector Frost (Carol O'Connor) visits the pub after finding a telegram in the dead man's pocket. The hostelry is the Black Horse public house on the corner of Bangors Road North and Slough Road at Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire.
While taking this comparison, Antony Blair discovered that the pub dates from 1928.