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Open on SpotifyGolden Age detective novel · 1929 · Philo Vance #4
The Bishop Murder Case
Cock Robin dies with an arrow through his heart, and a killer signing himself THE BISHOP turns nursery rhymes into a deadly game.
- Running time
- 9 h 36 min
- Chapters
- 26 tracks
- On Spotify since
- 8 September 2026
- Narration
- Digital voice · full cast
About the story
What happens
A man lies dead on a private archery range in West 75th Street, a hunting arrow through his heart. His name is Joseph Cochrane Robin—Cock Robin—and the man last seen with him is Sperling, German for sparrow. A typed note is already in the letter-box, signed THE BISHOP.
Philo Vance sees the joke before anyone will admit it is one. A university senior named Sprigg is shot through the head with a little gun. A hunchback the neighborhood children call Humpty Dumpty is found broken at the foot of a park wall. The trail leads into a household of physicists and chess players, where a mind accustomed to light-years and electrons may have stopped counting human lives at all. The nursery-rhyme killer of crime fiction begins here.
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