I'm Hugh Bonneville and welcome to The Hound of the Baskervilles Part 3.

In the last episode, Holmes and Watson were visited by Sir Henry Baskerville, the new

American heir to the Baskerville estate.

Having just arrived in London, Sir Henry was greeted by a sinister warning, advising him to stay away from the family home in Dartmoor.

But he wasn't daunted, insisting that he intended to take up residents at the first opportunity.

He did mention one strange incident, however.

He recently had a brand new boot stolen from his hotel,

just one boot, mind. The thief left the other one outside his room. Holmes and Watson

tailed Sir Henry back to the Northumberland Hotel and discovered they weren't the only ones

following him. A mysterious bearded man also seemed to be dogging his every move.

Now Sherlock is attempting to track down the cabby,

in whose vehicle the spy was last seen.

From the Noyser podcast network, this is The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 3.

Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.

For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten,

and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern Belgian masters.

He would talk of nothing but art, of which he had the crudest ideas,

from our leaving the gallery until we found ourselves

at the Northumberland Hotel.

Sir Henry Baskerville is upstairs expecting you, said the clerk. He asked me to show you up at

once when you came. Have you any objection to my looking at your register?' said Holmes.

"'Not in the least.'

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