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Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.

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

this is The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Part 2. Last time, Holmes and Watson travelled to Herefordshire,

where a young man called James McCarthy had been arrested for his father's brutal murder.

Inspector Lestrade told Holmes it was an open and shut case.

Charles McCarthy had been found with his head stoved in, following a blazing row with James.

But Holmes suspected there was more to the case than met the eye, and he wasn't the only one.

Alice Turner, a young woman from a neighbouring family, was convinced that James was wrongly accused. Her father John was the McCarthy's landlord, both families having returned to England from Australia two decades earlier.

While Holmes went to interview the accused, Watson attempted to piece together the clues,

the strange angle from which the fatal blow was struck.

The piece of grey fabric briefly spotted at the crime scene, and the dying man's final words,

a rat.

Now the good doctor can do nothing but wait for his friend to return,

hopefully, with some new information.

It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town.

The glass still keeps very high, he remarked as he sat down. It is of that it should not rain "'before we are able to go over the ground.

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