Dr. Watson has been discharged from military service after suffering severe wounds and is having no luck finding accommodation until a chance encounter leads him to a remarkable young man and 221B Baker Street.
The arrogant, irascible Sherlock Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician and an expert on all aspects of crime, but despite his efforts, Watson is in the dark about his room-mate’s profession. Finally, Holmes reveals that he is a consulting detective and soon Watson is drawn into the investigation of a bizarre murder in which Holmes is involved, unaware that it is the beginning of the most famous partnership in the history of criminal detection.
An unmarked corpse, a wedding ring and a mysterious message scrawled in blood are the intrepid pair’s only clues as they follow the trail of a man driven to fulfil a terrible oath he swore more than twenty years before.
This dramatisation by Bert Coules with Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 3 to 10 November 1989.
