The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Part Two
4/8/202639 min
The mysterious ‘rat’ falls into Sherlock’s trap.
But what will the great detective do with him, once he’s solved the murder of Charles McCarthy?
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
Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines
Mix & Mastering: Josh Latham
Series Consultant: Dan Smith
Executive Producer: Katrina Hughes
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Hugh Bonneville0:18
[gentle upbeat music] Welcome to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is "The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Part 2." Last time, Holmes and Watson traveled to Herefordshire, where a young man called James McCarthy had been arrested for his father's brutal murder. Inspector Lestrade told Holmes it was an open-and-shut case. Charles McCarthy had been found with his head stoved in following a blazing row with James. But Holmes suspected there was more to the case than met the eye, and he wasn't the only one. Alice Turner, a young woman from a neighboring family, was convinced that James was wrongly accused. Her father, John, was the McCarthy's landlord, both families having returned to England from Australia two decades earlier. While Holmes went to interview the accused, Watson attempted to piece together the clues, the strange angle from which the fatal blow was struck, the piece of gray fabric briefly spotted at the crime scene,