A Quarter to Seven · Holmes NYC

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

Who waited on a Manhattan sidewalk at a quarter to seven in the morning to shoot a company chief dead, and why does the whole city know the gunman's smile but not his name?

Read the story and the full transcript: https://matezz.com/episodes/a-quarter-to-seven-holmes-nyc/

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

A new edition of “Exact Change for Murder”, rewritten from the ground up.

On a sleeting February evening in Brooklyn, Holmes and Watson are trading barbs over a landlord's lawyer's letter when a call comes from Captain Pomeroy of Homicide. A company chief has been shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel, and the captain's squad is drowning in tips. He does not need more leads. He needs someone to throw most of them out. Holmes, drawn by the idea of subtraction, crosses the river. Outside the hotel, Pomeroy walks them through the morning. Gordon Haverly, head of Harborline Health, was walking in early to his own investor meeting when a masked figure in a gray jacket stepped up behind him, fired, and left on an e-bike into the park. A grainy image of the same jacket with the mask pulled down, and a broad grin, has since been shown to the whole country. Eleven hundred calls have followed, and none has produced a name. Upstairs in the emptied ballroom, Haverly's assistant of eleven years boxes name cards one at a time and cannot bring herself to finish the last. She confirms that her employer walked the same block at the same hour every morning. Someone knew his schedule. But who was watching, and why?

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 2020s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a company chief, his assistant, a hostel clerk and her guests, 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 hotel, the hostel and the health company 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: New York City, February 2022 — with Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Writer v2.7.0.55 — our 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 Sleet and a Landlord's Letter
2:40 Three Steps from the Door
4:22 The Ballroom Set for Four Hundred
5:54 The Command Van After Midnight
7:19 The Night Clerk's Footage
8:55 The Man with the Braced Wrist
10:19 Dripping on the Doormat
11:55 Beneath the Desk Lamp
13:49 Forty Lenses at Noon
15:16 Lilies in the Dead Man's Suite
16:46 Candles Where He Fell
17:42 Back to the Front Desk
19:20 A Canvass Across the Table
20:54 Gray Light on the Steps
22:16 The Empty Interview Room
23:28 Noon at the Bus Terminal
25:31 The Last Entry in the Log

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