Sherlock Holmes Gielgud & Richardson
The Missing Three Quarter - 00
Sep 29, 2026 · 27 min · 13 segments
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Sherlock Holmes Gielgud & Richardson
Sep 29, 2026 · 27 min · 13 segments
Things had indeed been very slow with us.
I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that Sherlock Holmes's brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work.
For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but only sleeping.
Therefore I blessed the hour on a gloomy February morning some seven or eight years ago... that a telegram arrived at Baker Street with an enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm, which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life.
It says, Please await me, a terrible misfortune, right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable tomorrow.
Signed, Overton.
Let me see.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Strand postmark and
dispatch 1036.
Sit down, Scotland Yard, Mr. Holmes.
Inspector Stanley
Hopkins advised me to come to see you.
He said so far as he could see, the case was more in your line than that of the regular police.
Then place it down, Mr. Overton, and tell me slowly and quietly exactly what it is that has occurred and how you desire that I should help you.
Things had indeed been very slow with us.
I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that Sherlock Holmes's brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work.
For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but only sleeping.
Therefore I blessed the hour on a gloomy February morning some seven or eight years ago... that a telegram arrived at Baker Street with an enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm, which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life.
It says, Please await me, a terrible misfortune, right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable tomorrow.
Signed, Overton.
Let me see.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Strand postmark and
dispatch 1036.
Sit down, Scotland Yard, Mr. Holmes.
Inspector Stanley
Hopkins advised me to come to see you.
He said so far as he could see, the case was more in your line than that of the regular police.
Then place it down, Mr. Overton, and tell me slowly and quietly exactly what it is that has occurred and how you desire that I should help you.
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