Episode Details

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

Why does the son of a murdered machinery dealer send across Europe for Sherlock Holmes, with a young newsreader and a running cab meter, rather than trust a telephone with what he knows?

Read the story and the full transcript: https://matezz.com/episodes/the-case-of-the-six-unsigned-letters-sherlock-holmes-the-new-cases/

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

On a blustery June evening in 1956, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are at Baker Street, with Watson packing trout rods for a weekend on the Test and a half-crown wagered on the weather, when a young newsreader from Radio-Genève arrives straight from the aeroplane. Simone brings word that Henri Vautier, a machinery dealer, was killed at his home in Vessy-les-Pins the night before, and that his son Gilles, a sound engineer, will not trust a telephone and wants Holmes in Geneva. Holmes hesitates to arrive as a foreigner without standing, but Watson points out that a man who sends for help by air has something he cannot say on a line. At the shuttered house, the dead man's widow waits in the hall beside a chair she has set before the sealed room, and mother and son trade sharp words about secrets kept under that roof for a year. At the radio station, Gilles's name is being passed to the press, and reporters crowd the door. An inspector of the Sûreté then receives the visitors coolly and describes the wounds: a shot from across the room, then a blade. What did Gilles need to tell Holmes that he could not say to anyone else?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1950s 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 1950s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a radio newsreader, a sound engineer, a machinery dealer and his family, the station's staff, 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 radio station, the village and its streets 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 Geneva — June 1956.

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 A Wager at Baker Street
2:33 The Shuttered House at Vessy-les-Pins
3:55 The Red Lamp at Radio-Genève
5:43 An Inspector's Smoke-Filled Office
7:17 Kitchen Table by Lamplight
8:46 The Room Behind the Seals
10:14 A Midnight Reckoning in the Hall
11:48 Cold Morning, Heavy Doors
13:02 Simone's Dressing Room
14:29 Two Columns on Hotel Notepaper
15:26 Noon at the Oilcloth Table
16:48 A Telegram at Dusk
18:22 Questions in the Inspector's Office
19:55 One Lamp by the Stove
21:23 Two in the Morning, Lakeside
22:31 Gathered Round the Long Table
24:38 Noon in the Cigar Smoke
26:22 Baker Street, a Week Later

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