A Vintage Detective Story

A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.

Cast

Sergei Yursky

as Slinkton / Auguste Dupin

Yuri Bogatyryov

as Samson / Auguste Dupin's Friend

Vsevolod Larionov

as Prefect

Tamara Chernova

as Noble Lady

Aleksandr Shvorin

as Minister

Andrey Kharitonov

as Beckwith (Melton)

Irina Ponomaryova

as Margaret

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