Holmes and Watson visit Mrs St. Clair, the wife of the man whose disappearance they are investigating. Holmes’ initial thoughts are proven wrong by a letter from the 'missing' man, leading him to interrogate a beggar in a prison cell.

This episode features the voices of S. Georgiadis as Sherlock Holmes, S. J. Nicholls as Dr John H. Watson, E. Wood as Mrs St. Clair, C. Punch as the Guard, J. Bowman as Inspector Bradstreet and F. Preston as Neville St. Clair.

The production is directed by G. Rogers with J. Lusty, adapted for audio by E. Bradford and M. van der Bijl and is produced by Someone New Theatre Company. Sound design for this episode by E. Bradford.

This episode was produced on the lands of our traditional custodians, the Wadawurrung people. Cast recordings were made on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Wadawurrung, Awabakal and Worimi people. Someone New Theatre Company acknowledges and pays respect to our traditional custodians and to their past, present and emerging leaders.

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Credit to R. O'Connor,   freesound.org and zapsplat.com for SFX used in this episode.