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What strikes me first about "The Hanged Man of Dartmoor" is the very good sound quality! The constant rain of Dartmoor sounds so convincingly real that I looked outside. But it was only cloudy; the pouring rain was coming from the speakers....
The second notable aspect was the voices of the speakers, which sounded familiar to me right away. So I did some research and was disappointed to find that the same speakers had voiced other characters in the previous LARRY BRENT episodes. Sorry, but that just doesn't work for me .
"The Hanged Man of Dartmoor" definitely starts off promisingly and somewhat creepily in a moor with a gallows visible from afar. And at this gallows on the Devil's Peak, several Englishmen had already hung in past centuries, and on a rainy day in September 2012, there now dangled Archie Svenson, alias X-Ray-14. The Psychoanalytical Special Department, or PSA for short, which has taken it upon itself to combat supernatural and/or seemingly unsolvable murder cases and mysteries, immediately called in X-Ray-3 alias LARRY BRENT. This was because the body of X-Ray-14 had also had the PSA ring removed, or rather, the whole hand was chopped off, which could expose the secret department, so LARRY BRENT quickly made his way to England. Upon arrival, he learns that 1-2 prisoners have been disappearing repeatedly from the nearby quarry. Thus, LARRY BRENT is dealing with two cases, as X-Ray-14 was in Dartmoor for this reason, and both seem to be connected.
The episode unfolds over a quite thrilling 72 minutes that really captivated me. Only the finale doesn't quite excite me. Speaking of excitement, unfortunately, the horror factor drops to 0% after a few minutes, making the episode more of a thriller than a horror audio drama.
On the other hand, I find the second "Nostalgia" cover, which is on the back of the booklet and is oriented towards the old pulp novels, quite good.
Nevertheless, I can only give it 7 points.
