Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your, Stevie K. And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year. For this episode, I bring you a study in Scarlet, which is the first Sherlock Holmes book written by a cert author Conan Doyle, where Dr. John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes,

and together they solve a murder in which Watson is amazed at Holmes' Science of Deduction.

This will be a two-part series. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy the nostalgic mystery radio thank you for listening

a man lies dead in an empty house.

His face and limbs hideously contorted.

The floor and walls of the room are spattered with blood.

There are no wounds on his body.

The scarlet thread of murder runs through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it and isolate it and expose every inch of it.

The every inch of it. A study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

dramatized in two parts by Bert Cooles,

with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes

and Michael Williams as Dr. John Watson.

A study in Scarlet, Part 2, The Country of the Saints.

After much fruitless racking of my brain, I had finally discovered that my new fellow lodger, Sherlock Holmes, a man of singular talents,

enthusiasms and areas of ignorance, was in fact what he termed a consulting detective.

I have it in me, he told me modestly, to make my name famous.

All he lacked was the proper opportunity. I was convinced, though

Holmes was not, that this opportunity had at last arrived with the invitation by no less a personage

than Inspector Tobias Grixon of Scotland Yard to investigate the bizarre murder of one Enoch J. Drebber.

On the day following the killing, the papers were full of the Brixton mystery.

Listen to this one.

The German name of the murdered man, the absence of all other motive,

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