Sherlock Holmes

claim-my-podcast-in-podbean{scid-Y2xhc3NpY3Nob3dz-ecid}

The Cooper Beeches

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley to look into his wife’s disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down.

Watson and Holmes are in Rome. Holmes has just finished a very confidential case concerning the Cardinal Tosca. Holmes takes advantage of the opportunity for a short holiday and sees the sites of Rome. He also indulges his passion for music to attend to the Opera House where he becomes involved in solving the case the murder of the Opera''s diva.

The monotony of pea-soup-fog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages — three are still missing — were found with Arthur Cadogan West’s body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Woolwich Arsenal whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near Aldgate, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain’s enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.

This is the story, set in 1891, that introduces Holmes' greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. Holmes arrives at Dr. Watson's one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with barked knuckles. He has apparently escaped three murders.