Israel Zangwell (1864-1926) was a British author closely affiliated with the Zionist movement. He was called "the Dickens of the Ghetto," in part because of his influential novel Children of the Ghetto. His 1908 play The Melting Pot helped popularize the term to reference cultural assimilation in the early years of the twentieth century. Genre fans recognize his 1882 novel The Big Bow Mystery as pone of the earliest examples of the "locked room" mystery, paving the way for such masters of the form as John Dickson Carr, Hake Talbot, Edward D. Hoch, Paul Halter, and Bill Pronzini.
The Big Bow Mystery has been continuously in print since it was first published and has been the basis of three films, and, of course, the basis of this BBC Radio adaptation by Robert Messik.
"It's 1892 and a man is found dead in a room that is locked from the inside. But it's not suicide. A seemingly inexplicable murder brings London to a standstill and pits the city's two greatest detectives against each other."
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville, and featuring John Woodvine and David Holt as the two rival detectives. Also in the cast are Carolyn Pickles, David Thorpe, and Chris Moran.
Now it's time to test your wits and try to solve The Big Bow Mystery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKV-BOzoHYA
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