Antoine Feval
Created and Performed by Chris Gibbs
London, 1896. Barnaby Gibbs is an incurable optimist, Sherlock Holmes fan, and a man who knows he’s not particularly good at anything.
One night, while checking on a friend's empty house, he encounters a stranger, dressed entirely in black, holding a bag full of stolen belongings and attempting to write a poem about sapphires. There is only one conclusion a reasonable man could come to: this is the notorious cat burglar/con-man known as the Rhyming Bandit! However, Barnaby is not a reasonable man, and when the stranger explains he is actually the famous detective Antoine Feval, a new crime-fighting duo is born.
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