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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: Part Two

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Noiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The mystery of the Six Napoleons deepens as Holmes follows a trail of the broken busts across London. And as the great detective closes in on a suspect with a violent past, he discovers a precious treasure hidden in plain sight.     A ⁠Noiser⁠ podcast production.    Narrated by Hugh Bonneville   Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Produced by Katrina Hughes and Duncan Barrett  Script Supervisor: Addison Nugent  Sound Design and Audio Editing by Mirianna Pitman Latham  Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink  Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines  Mix & Mastering: The Soundhouse Studios Series Consultant: Dan Smith    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think about cheese.

0:02.0

Make your thoughts cheesier.

0:04.2

Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipopla sauce and Ameta cheese melt.

0:08.3

And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.

0:12.3

Did we mention it's cheesy?

0:13.9

Cheese.

0:15.8

Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.

0:18.1

Plus and participation may vary.

0:19.2

Subjects availability.

0:23.4

Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.

0:26.1

I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser podcast network,

0:29.2

this is The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Part 2.

0:33.7

Last time, Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard

0:36.9

visited Baker Street with a peculiar case that initially seemed too trivial for Holmes' attention. Someone in London was breaking plaster busts of Napoleon Bonaparte. The first incident occurred at Morse Hudson's shop in Kennington Road, where a bust was shattered by an unknown vandal.

0:55.0

Next, two more identical busts were destroyed, both owned by Dr. Barnacott, one from his home and one from his surgery, all manufactured from the same mould.

1:06.0

While discussing these curious events with Holmes and Watson, Lestrade received an urgent summons to Pitt Street in Kensington.

1:15.3

There, the three men discovered that another Napoleon bust had been stolen from the home of journalist Horace Harker.

1:22.6

More disturbingly, a murdered man whose throat had been slashed was found on Harker's doorstep.

1:29.7

The stolen bust was later discovered smashed in the garden of a nearby empty house.

1:34.9

Holmes, intrigued by the peculiar pattern, noted that the criminals seemed to place extraordinary

1:40.1

value on these seemingly worthless plaster casts. As the investigation began to take shape, Holmes requested Lestrade meet them at Baker Street that evening,

1:50.0

hinting at a possible nighttime expedition if his theories proved correct.

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