The Ruthven Inheritance (audio story)

was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Jago & Litefoot: Series Two, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andy Lane and featured Christopher Benjamin as Henry Gordon Jago and Trevor Baxter as George Litefoot.
== Publisher's summary ==
The pathology skills of Professor Litefoot and Dr Sacker are called upon by Lord Ruthven, who asks them to catalogue a cache of bones beneath his country estate. And so begins the endgame... as a plan long laid come to its glorious fruition.
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
* George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
* Leela - Louise Jameson
* Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
* Doctor Ormond Sacker - Duncan Wisbey
* Gabriel Sanders - David Collings
* Lord Ruthven - Simon Williams
== Worldbuilding ==
* Mrs Hudson erroneously believes that Litefoot can get tickets for the two of them to one of Queen Victoria's garden parties.
* Jago owes 500 guineas to the bank.
* Dr Sacker used to play rugby.
== Story notes ==
* This story marks the death of Professor Litefoot's fellow pathologist, Dr Ormond Sacker (Duncan Wisbey).
* This story marks the first time that Jago and Litefoot have met Leela since the events of the television story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
* This audio drama was recorded on 25, 26, 29 and 30 March 2010.
* Lord Ruthven shares his surname with the vampiric villain of John William Polidori's 1819 short story The Vampyre.
== Continuity ==
* Jago refers to the fact that Ellie killed Sibelius Crow. (AUDIO: The Necropolis Express)
* Jago believes that Mrs Hudson has Litefoot in her sights. Litefoot himself previously expressed the same concern. (AUDIO: The Similarity Engine)
* Litefoot refers to his work as a forensic pathology lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers)
* Litefoot mentions his time in China. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
* There are reports of lights underneath the River Thames and strange wet footprints on the docks. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
* Litefoot and Leela once again discuss tea. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
== External links ==
Category:Jago & Litefoot: Series Two audio stories
Category:Stories set in London
Category:Stories set in the 1890s