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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventure of Silver Blaze: Part One

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Books, Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Holmes and Watson journey to Dartmoor to investigate the shocking disappearance of Silver Blaze — England's most celebrated racehorse. With the Wessex Cup just days away and the horse's trainer found dead on the moor, Holmes must untangle a web of deception involving suspicious stable hands, mysterious nighttime visitors, and a curious piece of mutton curry.  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 Anisha Deva and George Tapp  Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines  Mix & Mastering: Thomas Pink  Series Consultant: Dan Smith    For ad-free listening and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes' short stories, the series where we delve

0:38.7

into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective, following his keen mind and unerring

0:44.8

instincts from the first subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.

0:50.2

This week we embark on The Adventure of Silver Blaze, a case that begins with the disappearance of England's most celebrated racehorse.

0:59.0

Behind the missing thoroughbred lies a tale of midnight encounters on the moor,

1:04.0

a dead man in the rain, and a killer so unlikely

1:07.0

that even the great detective will struggle to uncover their identity.

1:12.7

Across two immersive episodes, we'll follow Holmes and Watson from London to the

1:17.3

windswept hills of Dartmoor, where nothing and no one is quite what it seems.

1:24.4

From the Noiser Network, this is The Adventure of Silver Blaze, part one.

1:34.3

I'm afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go, said Holmes as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

1:43.3

Go, where too? To Dartmoor, to King's Pyland.

1:48.8

I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this

1:53.4

extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England.

2:01.3

For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest,

2:06.7

and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco,

2:12.6

and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.

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