Nicolas Freeling King Of The Rainy Country

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(3.3 stars; 3 reviews)

Saturday Night Theatre: Sat 9th Jul 1994, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Nicolas Freeling With Martin Jarvis as Inspector Van der Valk. A handsome middle-aged millionaire disappears - along with a naked girl.   Van der Valk tracks them across Europe. Dramatised and directed by Philip Martin   Anne-Marie: Jackie Smith-Wood Canisius: Michael Fitzgerald Arlette: Sunny Ormonde Lira: Roger Hume Heinz Stossell: Alan Devereux Miss Kramer: Gillian Goodman Commissaris: Geoff Serle Serrailler: Leon Tanner Wolkk: Simon Carter Doctor: David Vann This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...' The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, three hundred metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of blood, some splintered bone, a few fragments of gut, and a ten-seventy-five Mauser rifle bullet. No one had broken any laws. But a handsome, middle-aged millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl. And Van der Valk was given the job of finding out why.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.