I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to Sherlock Holmes' short stories,

the series where we delve into the files of fiction's most brilliant detective,

following his keen mind and unerring instincts from the first subtle clue to the final dramatic revelation.

This time, the great detective is joined by his elusive brother, Mikecroft, as they embark on The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.

Over two thrilling installments, we'll step inside London's most bizarre gentleman's club

to uncover a baffling tale of kidnapping and coercion,

and join our heroes as they follow a trail of cryptic messages delivered through a terrified

interpreter, trapped in a deadly game.

There'll be shadowy villains, midnight interrogations, and a prisoner whose silence is the only thing standing between him and of fate worse than death.

From the Noyser podcast network, this is the adventure of the Greek interpreter, part one.

Thank you. Part 1 During my long. During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I had never heard him

refer to his relations and hardly ever to his own early

life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced

upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain

without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was

preeminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships

were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression

of every reference to his

own people. I had come to believe that he was an orphan, with no relatives living, but one day,

to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother. It was after tea on a summer evening and the conversation which

had roamed in a desultory spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the

change in the obliquity of the ecliptic came round at last to the question of

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