{"id":16672,"date":"2017-03-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=16672"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:09:55","slug":"audio-drama-review-history-harry-nile-volume-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/audio-drama-review-history-harry-nile-volume-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Drama Review: The History of Harry Nile, Volume 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final dozen stories to wrap up Phil Harper\u2019s historic run as Harry Nile are collected in the History of Harry Nile, Volume <\/a>7, containing twelve episodes including three double length episodes and Harper\u2019s final episode before he died.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorites are:<\/p>\n

The Case of the Interstate Stalker:<\/strong> A case where Harry helps out his sister who is being chased across the country by an obsessed used car dealer. It\u2019s not a typical detective story, but it does show Harry\u2019s personal side, and shows the aging private eye relating to his family.<\/p>\n

The Friends of Jules Riskin:<\/strong> Another personal story that follows up on a previous episode, this time involving the death of Harry\u2019s younger brother Joey. Harry\u2019s been told it\u2019s an accident but finds out otherwise, and faces a mob vendetta that could wipe out his family.<\/p>\n

Twenty Grand:<\/strong>\u00a0A shady business deal\u00a0investigation leads Harry\u00a0on the hunt for a rare car, and an encounter with an even more unusual woman. There\u2019s some great twists and solid tension.<\/p>\n

The Mobius Matter:<\/strong> The last Harry Nile story starring Phil Harper. A husband comes to Harry and Murphy saying he believes his wife is trying to kill him. Independently, the wife comes to them saying her husband is trying to kill her. It\u2019s a very clever case with a lot of twists. The story features Richard Sanders from WRKP in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Motive:<\/strong> Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan\u2019s Island) appears\u00a0and the story\u00a0has solid and unexpected twists.<\/p>\n

The stories in this set are well-written and well-acted. My only minor quibble is with the ending of, \u201cThe Miracle Mile,\u201d a story which took Harry back to Los Angeles to solve a problem for an old friend and then ended\u00a0without Harry doing anything for his friend.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, this was really a joy to listen to. Phil Harper\u2019s run as Harry Nile was an all time classic run that\u2019s been a pleasure to listen to, and his chemistry with the late Pat French was superb.<\/p>\n

This is a good buy for long-time fans of Harry Nile. There are many callbacks to prior episodes, so those who are new to the character may want to try the History of Harry Nile, Volumes 1 or 2, or pick up one of the Adventures of Harry Nile sets with Larry Albert, who took over the role after Harper passed away.<\/p>\n

However, if you do want to purchase this, be aware that March 19th, 2017 may be the last day you can order. Jim French productions<\/a> is closing and there\u2019s currently no plan for the episodes to continue to be legally available. So if you\u2019re interested in any of their products, March 19th, 2017 is the deadline.<\/p>\n

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.0<\/p>\n

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The final dozen stories to wrap up Phil Harper\u2019s historic run as Harry Nile are collected in the History of Harry Nile, Volume 7, containing twelve episodes including three double length episodes and Harper\u2019s final episode before he died. Some of my favorites are: The Case of the Interstate Stalker: A case where Harry helps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-drama-review","category-golden-age-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pECdK-4kU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}