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 week after the Damascus army's radio-silence drill, a ruined wireless importer arrives at Baker Street with three seized ledgers and a whisper of treason hanging over him. Is he the traitor the army is hunting, or only the man it has settled on?

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

On a frosty February evening in 1964, a half-frozen wireless importer named Tawfiq climbs the stairs at Baker Street. A week earlier the army in Damascus held a radio-silence drill. Afterwards police arrived with a warrant and carried off his three ledgers. The bazaar has since whispered a dangerous word against him, and his credit is gone. Holmes takes the case and, with Watson, flies to Damascus. They are lodged in guest rooms belonging to Faris, a genial host home from six years in Paris, who counts ministers and colonels among his debtors. Inspector Rashid of the police shows Holmes the ledgers: ruled columns and dates, but not one figure, which he reads as the mark of a foreign paymaster. At army headquarters Major Zahran explains that a single brief burst broke the silence and that his direction-finding vans were waiting for it. Tawfiq, meanwhile, will say little about where his own roads lead. Holmes asks for patience and tells the police to let the merchant walk free for now. Who sent that burst, and why would an honest trader keep books with nothing written in them?

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 a ruined wireless merchant, a lavish host, a watchful concierge, an army major, 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 block of flats, the bazaar and the army headquarters 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 Damascus — February 1964.

Chapters:
0:00 A Frosty Night in Baker Street
2:28 Arrival in Damascus at Dusk
4:12 The Inspector's Green Lamp
5:50 The Major's Map Room
7:21 Receivers Humming Before Dawn
8:41 A Supper High Above Damascus
10:23 A Hooded Figure at Midnight
11:56 Dawn and a Note Delivered
13:22 A Quiet Mid-Morning Stroll
14:55 Down in the Cells
16:22 An Evening of Wine and Ministers
17:53 Late Talk and a Little Book
19:32 A Sleepless Night of Doubts
20:56 Ledgers Reopened at Headquarters
22:29 Holmes Calls an Afternoon Meeting
23:57 The Dinner Nobody Meant to Eat
25:46 Home to Baker Street Again

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