I'm Julie Andrews, and it is my great pleasure to bring you Jane Austen Stories,

the new show from the Noiser Podcast Network.

I'll be reading Pride and Prejudice.

We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen,

but in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears.

Listen to Jane Austen's stories wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories.

I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser podcast network, this is The Problem of Thor Bridge, Part 2.

Last time, Holmes received an urgent letter from an American gold magnet named Neil Gibson.

Gibson's wife, Maria, had been found shot in the head on Thor Bridge near his estate in Hampshire.

All evidence pointed to the family's governess, Miss Dunbar, with whom Gibson was rumoured to have been romantically involved.

Police found a revolver matching the bullet in her wardrobe.

She was seen near Thorbridge on the night of the murder,

and a note written in her handwriting was found clutched in the dead woman's hand. Gibson, however,

was convinced that Miss Dunbar was innocent. Before Gibson's arrival, his estate manager, Marlow Bates,

rushed into Baker Street in a state of panic.

Bates warned Holmes that his employer was a brutal man,

who had made his late wife's life miserable.

When Gibson arrived, his domineering presence and fierce temper confirmed Bates' description.

After a tense exchange, the gold magnet finally admitted that he had fallen in love with Miss Dunbar,

but she had rejected his advances.

Meanwhile, his devoted wife grew increasingly jealous of the hold Dunbar had over her husband.

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