The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Part One

4/1/202636 min

Holmes and Watson head down to Herefordshire… where an Antipodean murder mystery is playing out.

But who has killed local landowner Charles McCarthy, two decades after he returned home from Australia with his family?

And what light can the dead man’s final words – ‘A rat!’ – shine on the mystery?

A Noiser podcast production.

Narrated by Hugh Bonneville 

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Produced by Duncan Barrett

Sound Design and Audio Editing by Tony Onuchukwu

Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink

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[mysterious music] I'm Hugh Bonneville, and welcome to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, the series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective, following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation. This time, Holmes and Watson are embroiled in an Australian murder mystery playing out in rural Herefordshire. John Turner and Charles McCarthy both spent most of their lives in the Antipodes before returning home to the old country. Charles and his son, James, took up residence on Turner's estate, where the young lad soon grew close to his landlord's daughter, Alice. But now Charles McCarthy has been found dead, his head stoved in with a blunt object, and James has been arrested for his father's murder. Can Sherlock prove the young man's innocence before he's condemned to the gallows?