🎭 The Case of the Frightened Lady | A House of Shadows, Secrets, and Sudden Death

🎭 The Case of the Frightened Lady
A House of Shadows, Secrets, and Sudden Death

Series: BBC Saturday Night Theatre
Author: Edgar Wallace
Genre: Classic British Mystery • Country-House Crime • Suspense

📖 Synopsis
Set within the forbidding walls of Mark’s Priory, an ancestral English estate heavy with secrets, The Case of the Frightened Lady unfolds as a quintessential country-house mystery. When a chauffeur is found brutally murdered, unease spreads through the household—particularly for Isla Crane, the young niece of Lady Lebanon, whose growing terror hints that danger may be far from over.

As Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard arrives to investigate, further deaths and unsettling discoveries reveal a web of concealed motives, strained loyalties, and long-buried truths. Every inhabitant of the house—family and servant alike—falls under suspicion. With nerves frayed and fear tightening its grip, the mystery builds toward a chilling resolution in true Edgar Wallace fashion.

Elegant, suspenseful, and rich with atmosphere, this BBC adaptation delivers old-world menace, sharp dialogue, and classic radio drama tension from beginning to end.

✒️ A Chestertonian Introduction
G.K. Chesterton once observed that the purpose of mystery is not merely to hide the truth—but to remind us that truth is often hidden in plain sight. In The Case of the Frightened Lady, fear itself becomes a clue. The dark corridors of Mark’s Priory echo with more than footsteps; they resound with consciences, secrets, and the quiet knowledge that evil rarely announces itself—it whispers. This is mystery as moral drama, where terror is not merely felt, but earned.

📜 “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
— G.K. Chesterton

🎧 Why Listen on Chesterton Radio
A masterclass in classic British suspense
Gothic atmosphere without gimmicks
A perfect late-night mystery for fans of BBC drama, Sherlock Holmes, and country-house crime
Faithful to the golden age of radio storytelling

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