Loose on the Wall · Holmes NYC

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

An Anselmo Vidal drawing priced at 110,000 dollars was stolen from a Manhattan gallery eleven days ago, and it has already been mailed back. The owner has a homicide captain on the case, yet he sends for Sherlock Holmes for one thing only: a name. Who stole it, and why would anyone send it home?

🎧 Full episode of Holmes NYC: a modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama, a radio mystery set in New York and performed by a full cast.

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

Brooklyn, August 2014. On a hot evening with every window open to the street and the F train out all weekend, Dr. Watson is plotting a way to tomorrow's clinic on a paper map, and Holmes, unasked, is doing it instead. Then Holmes's flip phone buzzes on the windowsill, and Captain Tremaine of Homicide is on the line, though nobody is dead. Marsh, who owns the Larkspur House gallery, wants Holmes there tonight, and all he wants from him is a name. At nine, beside a pale square on the wall, Marsh tells them what is missing: an Anselmo Vidal drawing priced at 110,000 dollars and gone eleven days. Four collectors have cancelled this week, he says, on the news that it has already come home by mail, like a sweater. His assistant, Bellamy, who keeps the book, has one client left in it. The next afternoon Captain Tremaine and Inspector Okafor show Holmes what came back in the post. The door log holds one visitor between the last sighting of the drawing and the minute it was missed, and the gallery's camera is a red light in an empty box. Who was that visitor?

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 gallery owners and their staff, art dealers, collectors and clients, artists, anyone suspected or accused of the theft, the prosecutors, the investigators, officials and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body, company or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the gallery and the precinct 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: Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York — August 2014.

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 Paper Map and No F Train
2:37 Nine O'Clock on a Long White Floor
4:14 A Buzzer at the Front Desk
5:50 Forklifts Under a Steel Roof
7:39 An Office Above the Cargo Floor
8:55 Closing Time, Lights Half Down
10:12 Before the Doors Opened
11:41 A Closet Office, Door Propped Open
13:01 The Corner of the Front Desk
14:31 Cartons on the Consulting-Room Table
15:20 Everyone With Business Left on That Floor
17:19 A Torn Envelope on the Sidewalk
18:36 Packed Into the Office Again
20:42 One Lamp Over the Bare Wall
21:33 Two Days to the Hour
23:13 Noon on the Long Floor
26:13 The Last Page of the Case Log

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