For Balladeer’s Blog’s review of the first episode of this 1971-1973 series about London by Gaslight detectives from both the Victorian and Edwardian Ages you can simply click HERE
Episode: THE ABSENT MINDED COTERIE (February 26th, 1973)
Detective: Eugene Valmont, created by Robert Barr. The first Eugene Valmont story was published in 1904.
Synopsis: In this Second Season episode, Inspector Hale (Barry Linehan) of Scotland Yard has reached a dead-end in his current investigation and has sought out the aid of the French-born private investigator Eugene Valmont, who operates out of London. Continue reading
WITHIN AN ACE OF THE END OF THE WORLD (1900) – Written by Robert Barr. No doubt about it, Barr was obsessed with the notion of humanity possibly bringing on its own demise through ill-considered scientific tampering. Recently Balladeer’s Blog reviewed another of his stories, The Doom of London, which mined the same creative territory. 
THE DOOM OF LONDON (1892) – Written by Robert Barr. In the “far future” of the mid-Twentieth Century the narrator of this tale looks back at the catastrophe that hit London in the 1890s. 