Episode Details

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

A parcel from Beijing is stopped at JFK under a green tag, and the supervisor who signed the hold has vanished. Who needed that shipment held, and who needed it to fly?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

March 2017. In a Brooklyn brownstone with dead radiators, Holmes is charting the super's broken promises on graph paper when Paige Winters, a customs supervisor at JFK, arrives straight from the airport. A screener named Rosa Delgado pulled a parcel off the Beijing freight line, and a green tag put it on manual hold. It is diplomatic cargo, and Washington will ask questions in forty-eight hours. The hold carries the name of Winters's own supervisor, Marcus Ellery, who has since vanished. Winters took the tag before anyone upstairs could file it, and Holmes promptly takes it from her, reading a nervous man in the dents along its edge. That night Holmes and Watson cross the cargo docks. Delgado is frightened for her job, and the last man who asked questions left his car idling and never came back for it. In a quiet break room she describes what she watched on the ramp monitor: a hooded figure in a station coat and thin gloves, carrying the parcel away alone. The next morning they sit down with Lily Chen, the Meridian Pacific station manager, who pours oolong and wants the shipment cleared before Washington calls again. Why would anyone take such trouble over one parcel, and where has Ellery gone?

From the series Holmes NYC: a real New York crime reimagined as a modern Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design.

Loosely inspired by a real New York case of the 2010s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including customs officers, airline staff, diplomats, 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 airline, its cargo office and the airport's docks 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: New York City, March 2017 — with Brooklyn, Queens and JFK Airport.

Chapters:
0:00 A Cold Night in Brooklyn
2:44 Midnight on the Cargo Docks
4:34 Ten Minutes in the Break Room
6:58 Oolong at the Airline Office
8:31 Paperwork by the Dead Radiators
10:13 A Customs Folder, No Rain
11:52 Ink Under the Lamp
13:44 The Colonel and the Captain
15:44 Wet Concrete, Beijing Flight Waiting
17:40 Cold Pipes After Midnight
19:00 Morning at the Station Office
20:49 Pacing the Consulting Rooms
22:36 Moretti Waits by the Door
23:48 Back to the Cargo Dock
25:36 The Last Entry in the Log