Oct 3, 2026 · 36 min · 27 segments
Solve crimes with the great detective in "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories." Featuring classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, this podcast brings you the brilliant deductions and thrilling adventures of…
[instrumental music plays] And now let's look in on our good friend and host, Dr. Watson.
Come in, come in, come in.
[door opens] Ah, there you are, Mr. Bartel.
Just in time to join me in a cup of coffee.
Draw up your chair, young fellow, my lad.
Ah, that's it.
Well, Doctor, you told us last week that tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure takes us to the south of France.
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, all of them attracted by that Riviera paradise, all of them drawn by the magical spell of a small white ball spinning round the rim of a roulette wheel.
[laughs] Don't tell me that you and the great Sherlock Holmes were there on a gambling spree.
We were not, Mr. Bartel.
At the time my story begins, we'd just concluded an extremely delicate mission, a mission I may say that, uh, concerned the safety and good name of, uh, a very prominent member of the royal family.
Uh, one story at a time, Mr. Bartel.
In any event, my boy, I'm afraid that's a case about which my lips are sealed for all time.
It wasn't quite as fashionable as the casino at Monte Carlo, but as I intended to do a little modest gambling myself, it seemed an establishment more suited to my means.
As we stood there at the green baize-covered tables, the chatter of voices and the melodic chanting of the croupiers as they called the results of each spin of the wheel formed a background to a quiet conversation that Holmes and I were having.
[instrumental music plays] And now let's look in on our good friend and host, Dr. Watson.
Come in, come in, come in.
[door opens] Ah, there you are, Mr. Bartel.
Just in time to join me in a cup of coffee.
Draw up your chair, young fellow, my lad.
Ah, that's it.
Well, Doctor, you told us last week that tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure takes us to the south of France.
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, all of them attracted by that Riviera paradise, all of them drawn by the magical spell of a small white ball spinning round the rim of a roulette wheel.
[laughs] Don't tell me that you and the great Sherlock Holmes were there on a gambling spree.
We were not, Mr. Bartel.
At the time my story begins, we'd just concluded an extremely delicate mission, a mission I may say that, uh, concerned the safety and good name of, uh, a very prominent member of the royal family.
Uh, one story at a time, Mr. Bartel.
In any event, my boy, I'm afraid that's a case about which my lips are sealed for all time.
It wasn't quite as fashionable as the casino at Monte Carlo, but as I intended to do a little modest gambling myself, it seemed an establishment more suited to my means.
As we stood there at the green baize-covered tables, the chatter of voices and the melodic chanting of the croupiers as they called the results of each spin of the wheel formed a background to a quiet conversation that Holmes and I were having.
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