This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.

A village doctor and his housekeeper lie dead in a Bavarian villa on Good Friday, and the police have called it a shooting followed by a suicide. Why does the doctor's son fly to Baker Street, begging Holmes to come before the funeral?

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On Good Friday evening, April 3, 1962, London drizzles outside Baker Street when a young engineer arrives straight from the airport, refusing a chair and refusing a brandy. His father, a country doctor at Lindenau in Bavaria, is dead, and he wants Sherlock Holmes there before the burial. Holmes first declines, having no standing with a foreign police force, but Watson reminds him that an engineer trusts measurements, not feelings, and the son has already kept seats for both men on the morning flight. At the doctor's villa, Inspector Kraft of the Bavarian police explains what he found: the housekeeper, Gerda, lying in the study doorway, and the doctor in his chair with his own licensed pistol in his hand. The file, he says, is closed. Holmes reads a scorched lamp shade and places the death after dark on Thursday, yet the inspector will not share the surgeon's findings with the son. Downstairs, the doctor's nurse still answers the door to patients, and his longtime companion writes funeral cards, while the son insists that the housekeeper who carried him as a child was never harmed by his father. What has this grieving household not yet said?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1960s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1960s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the doctor's household, the villagers, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the village, the villa and the post office named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: London and Lindenau — April 1962.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction.

Chapters:
0:00 Good Friday in Baker Street
2:33 The Doctor's Study at Lindenau
4:29 Lilies and Wet Ink
6:11 A Message Under the Door
8:03 Pipe Smoke Above the Garage
9:37 Instruments Laid Out in Silence
10:54 Questions in the Surgery
12:34 A Night at the Inn
13:48 Easter Morning, Eight O'Clock
15:12 Dusk on the Terrace
16:16 Funeral Cards by Lamplight
17:26 Papers Boxed on the Floor
19:00 Back to the Surgery
20:36 Two Kinds of Paper
22:14 Past Midnight at the Window
23:41 The Last Envelopes
25:34 Baker Street by the Fire

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