"The York Mystery" The Teahouse Detective - A bookmaker's murder, the "Man in the Corner" solves it

Classic Old Time Radio, Vintage radio shows, the Golden Age of radio, murder, mystery, drama, comedy, sci-fi, westerns. The York Mystery — *The Teahouse Detective*, BBC Radio Drama Based on characters by: Baroness Emma Orczy Starring: Bernard Hepton as the Teahouse Detective, Suzanne Burden as Polly Burton First broadcast: BBC Radio 4, early 2000s Bookmaker slain—eccentric sleuth solves murder from teahouse corner, logic triumphs quietly. In this cerebral whodunit, a bookmaker is found murdered under puzzling circumstances. While the police flounder, a ragged old man seated in a London teahouse quietly unravels the case using nothing but newspaper clippings, logic, and razor-sharp deduction. With journalist Polly Burton as his sounding board, the Teahouse Detective reconstructs the crime from afar, revealing hidden motives and overlooked clues—all without leaving his corner seat. This episode exemplifies the series’ signature style: armchair sleuthing, Victorian atmosphere, and intellectual intrigue, adapted from Orczy’s The Old Man in the Corner stories.