The Case of the Frightened Lady - Edgar Wallace - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

The story is a thriller that revolves around the Lebanon family who live at Mark’s Priory. Lady Lebanon tells her son, William, Lord Lebanon that he must marry his cousin Isla Crane to continue the family line. However, William has no intention of marrying Isla and matters are made more complicated due to Isla falling in love with architect,
Edgar Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.
Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. (Wikipedia)
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Sadly I had to Bury the whole Lebanon in my backyard

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Apologies if I've missed this but is the date of original broadcast given for this?

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From the golden age.

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Inbreeding...