Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Part One

When country squire Hilton Cubitt arrives at Baker Street with a collection of childish stick figure drawings, Holmes faces one of his most cryptic cases yet. The crude sketches keep appearing around Cubitt's Norfolk estate, filling his American wife Elsie with inexplicable terror. As Holmes works to decode these "dancing men" figures, he realises they contain an ominous message connected to Elsie's mysterious past. Realising the Cubitts’ lives are in mortal danger, Holmes and Watson are faced with a race against time.  

A Noiser production, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Narrated by Hugh Bonneville 
Produced by Katrina Hughes and Addison Nugent 
Sound Design and Audio Editing by Thomas Pink &amp; Anisha Deva
Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines 
Mix &amp; Mastering: Cody Reynolds-Shaw
Series Consultant: Dan Smith 
 
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This Christmas, listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
A woman struck dead after hearing a haunting whistle. A series of child-like drawings scrawled throughout a country estate. A prize horse wandering the moors without an owner.
To the regular observer, these are merely strange anomalies. But for the master detective Sherlock Holmes they are the first pieces of an elaborate puzzle.
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